While the Greensboro City Council has awarded Honda Aircraft incentives —-and I suspect Guilford County Commissioners will do the same —— incentives from Piedmont Triad International Airport are proving problematic, reports (unposted) the N&R:
Topping the list of hurdles would be the $8.1 million needed for infrastructure improvements at the airport.
“As far as the community challenges, this is the biggest obstacle we face,” Dan Lynch, president of the Greensboro Economic Development Alliance, said Wednesday. “There are a lot of people working to land this project.”
……Lynch said he has sought help from the state Department of Transportation’s division of aviation and the state Department of Commerce, in addition to the incentive requests to the city and the county.
Seems to me incentives from PTI would not be tied to jobs and would be a total freebie. Interesting that as we read this, the High Point Enterprise reports what we’ve known for some time now —– employment at the FedEx hub is stuck in neutral.
