{"id":9391,"date":"2021-03-29T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=9391"},"modified":"2021-03-29T22:16:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T02:16:05","slug":"lakeland-linder-international-airport-has-a-billion-dollar-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/03\/29\/lakeland-linder-international-airport-has-a-billion-dollar-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Linder International Airport has a billion-dollar-year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakelandairport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lakeland Linder International Airport<\/a>\u2019s economic impact has taken off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Lakeland-Linder-International-Airport.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9392\" width=\"364\" height=\"273\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a recent study, Lakeland Linder\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/tampabay\/news\/2021\/03\/26\/lakeland-airport-creates-1b-in-economic-impact.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;impact on the local economy is on a rapid up-tick<\/a>, generating&nbsp;$1.5 billion, a roughly&nbsp;160% increase&nbsp;from 2019\u2019s impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The leap can be&nbsp;attributed to the airport\u2019s expansion&nbsp;to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abcactionnews.com\/news\/region-polk\/amazon-air-flies-for-the-first-time-from-lakeland-linder-international-airport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon Air<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omao.noaa.gov\/explore\/facilities\/noaa-aircraft-operations-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;NOAA<\/a>, and even&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drakenintl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Draken International<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;worth millions of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Airport Director,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/gene-conrad-11a89383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gene Conrad<\/a> also mentions a&nbsp;7-acre expansion project&nbsp;as well as further investments worth somewhere between&nbsp;seven + eight million dollars. To break down the current impact, here are the results by the numbers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>$1.5 billion&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;That\u2019s the&nbsp;total amount generated&nbsp;by the economic impact<\/li><li>$1.3 billion&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;That\u2019s the amount generated that&nbsp;benefitted the airport directly&nbsp;(85%)<\/li><li>$125 million&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;That\u2019s how much&nbsp;visitor spending&nbsp;brought to the airport<\/li><li>1,100&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;The number of employees, roughly, that&nbsp;Amazon Air brought&nbsp;to Lakeland<\/li><li>582&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;The number of employees that&nbsp;Publix contributed&nbsp;<\/li><li>300&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Draken International\u2019s&nbsp;employee contribution<\/li><li>108&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;The number of employees at the airport as a&nbsp;direct result of NOAA<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakeland Linder International Airport\u2019s economic impact has taken off. According to a recent study, Lakeland Linder\u2019s&nbsp;impact on the local economy is on a rapid up-tick, generating&nbsp;$1.5 billion, a roughly&nbsp;160% increase&nbsp;from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}