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Jay Honeck wrote:
So we've got three years of creating/running an aviation-theme-suite hotel under our belt now, things are going well, and it's time to start thinking about adding another location. Trouble is, I'm afraid that our current location may be almost unique. Here's what we need in order to duplicate our success: 1. A small-to-medium hotel on, or adjacent to, an airport. 2. The airport must be very close to the city that it serves. No "out-in-the-boonies" airports, please. 3. The city must have another attraction that creates hotel business. In our case, it's the University of Iowa that creates the alternative business. (There simply aren't enough of us pilots to solely support a hotel, sad to say.) In other locales, it might be a tourist attraction. KIER has a college and high school campus very near, multiple runways and is untowered. http://www.lsmsa.edu and http://www.nsula.edu The town is very famous and has been featured in several movies. They recently built alot of condo's for the campus, but rent housing is still very tight. Several hotels around, most newer ones are along I-49. There is an older Holiday Inn off the end of Runway 17. http://www.airnav.com/airport/KIER Any suggestions? We would prefer a warm-weather climate, to off-set our Midwest location, and to prolong the flying season -- but we're open to suggestions. (Ideally, it would be fun to have a southern hotel to run in winter, and the Iowa location to run in summer! :-) (Better yet, an Australian location to run from November - April, and our Iowa location to run form May - October!) KLFT (towered) / 3R7 (untowered) have serveral near the airports. You can taxi up to one at 3R7. 2L0 (untowered) is really nice, runway 18 leads you out over the lake, KLFT is bordered by a river... http://www.airnav.com/airport/KLFT (3 runways, 1 parallel) http://www.airnav.com/airport/3R7 (3 runways, 1 is a grass strip) http://www.airnav.com/airport/2L0 (1 runway, plus seaplane base, very active EAA group) http://www.eaa614.org |
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