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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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leaders behind it. Okay, everybody, speaking of leaders, I'm absolutely
thrilled in honor to introduce that in the heart of
Southern California, Michael Burrows stands at the forefront of transformative
economic development as the chief executive officer of the Inland
Valley Development Agency and San Bernardino International Airport. With over
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twenty eight years of a distinguished experience spanning public and
private sectors, Burroughs has masterlinded the revitalization of the former
Nordan Air Force Base, spearheading projects that have attracted over
two point five billion dollars in private investment and resulted
in the creation of more than eighteen thousand, one hundred
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direct jobs.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
His visionary leadership has not only facilitated the development of
sixteen million square feet of new infrastructure, but has also
positioned the airport as a critical hub for air, cargo
and passenger services.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Including the launch of daily flights to key destinations. By
fostering public private partnerships and strategic a witnesses, Burrows exemplifies
a commitment to sustainable growth, making a lasting impact on
the Inland Empire's economic landscape. His journey is a testament
to the power of innovation and collaboration in shaping communities
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for the future. Thank you so much for making the
time to share your.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Work with us today, mister Burrows.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Wow, well, thank you for that intro. I'm not sure
I know that, Mike, but I really appreciate it and
really well, and welcome you back to SBD. Thank you
for being thank you for.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Doing us absolutely well.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
As you noted earlier, the last time we spoke was
journeying the pandemic season.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
We were conducting this interview via zoom.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
But look at this.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
This is much better the zoom screen, don't you all agree?
So let's start off by talking about your journey. Let's
talk about your journey and becoming the CEO of some
you know in the National Airport.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Yeah, it actually it's it's still weird to hear the
title sometimes, but I've actually been involved with both agencies,
the in the Valley Development Agency and the airport since
the late nineteen nineties. So I started in my twenties
at that time as an intern and then writing grants,
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eventually doing real estate and other stuff. So being able
to see this place grow in the way that it
has over the years, with you know, the thousands and
thousands of folks that have really come in and invested
and helped us along the way, it was just pretty powerful.
So I kind of liked this room because it reminds
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me of you know, the landscape here because we've really
seen a lot of change is taken some time, right,
and I got to really, you know, give it up
for the community, for their patients, but their support, it's
it's been pretty amazing.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
So what is that like stepping into a retired Air
Force bace.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
What gives us a quick landscape of what you walked
into so we can truly appreciate what we see today.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yeah, it's particularly in the nineties, it was rough going.
So Norton was announced for closure in nineteen eighty eight.
So this was an our Air Force base and this
for those of us that grew up in the community
I did, this was a huge economic engine for the
entire region and particularly our county at that time was
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severely impacted. So our official closure date was nineteen ninety four.
But in that span of time, you had Kaiser Steel Clothes,
you had Norton an announced forclosure. In the up in
the High Desert, you'd have George Air Force Base Victorville. Yeah,
major installations, major employers, all closed within years of each
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other in the same county at the same time. You
could feel it, and it just it hurt and really hurt.
But being on the ground at the time that I
got here, it also was inspired so I like to
stay here at SBD that we have a proud humility
in part because of that the heritage that we essentially
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still have for the immense history of ourn Air Force base.
I think you'll find throughout all of our teams of
teams even today. But we're also very proud of the
hundreds and thousands of people that have worked year of
a year of a year to get us to where
we are today. So that's a pretty special feeling to
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be able to do that. But if you were here
in the mid nineties, you wouldn't see aircraft out there
like this. We were still trying to inventory with the
Air Force what we were getting. Everybody thought it was
that worked for the Air Force. Just change the lots,
open the doors the business store, right, And I got
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admit I was one of the thought, well, my dad
was stationed here, of course that stuff works great, you know,
he was an engineer. So but but but we got through,
and I got to say, the Air Force was and
still is an amazing partner with us. They as far
as base closures go, we're really proactive. So a lot
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of the environmental cleanup they initiated even before the closure
dates started so that helped us out a lot. But
we had to really just face the brutal facts when
it came to the infrastructure and and really take the
time to inventory what we have but also what we
did have, and and that's that's kind of tough to
do when the pressure was on to get some jobs
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and deployment back. But but we learned some good lessons
at that point, and I think that's allowed us to
really manage our groups, and you know, it's not easy
to do, but but those were good lessons learned when
we were a fledgling, you know, tiny group of organizations,
and that's where we spent most of our time, but
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also trying to find the funding to replace, repair, rebuild
all of this infrastructure, which we're still down to this day.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Right, Can you talk about what some of those major
infrastructure structure projects look like and what some of these
innovative funding mechanisms are that you implement.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
To fund them. So the biggest one is thanks to
a whole lot of collaboration at the federal level. I
gotta say the FA continues to be an amazing partner
with everything that we do out here. But Congressman Jerry
Lewis Congressman George Brown in those formative days really work
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very closely to him, to the point where Congressman Lewis
was able to get US funding to completely replace our growth.
You know, it was a four year project over thirty
five million dollars. But that runaway now handles the largest
aircraft are flying in the ward. So we talked about
big investments. But other things you take for granted. At
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Pedan Airport, our control we had to renovate the control town.
And you hear a lot of talk about control town.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It is because it's a very relevant important You're a
d of the trend, right you started, yeah, investing in
that infrastructure decades ago, versus just now when it's kind
of on the map of oh you need to take
a look at yeah, these towers.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Yeah. And then it went to the facilities, so we
were very blessed with some marchin ers. This was a
five base, so you had a lot of aircraft maintenance infrastructure.
You had a good sized, right size domestic terminal. Really
did true movements for all of the branches. No one's here.
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He went up through desert storm. So we're still flying
troops in the nineties as the closure process. But you know,
we've had to supplement that this facility that we're sitting
in didn't exist, you know, until twenty ten, and so
what we had to do to finance this was really
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that collaboration between our Inland Value Development Agents Agency, the
Economic Development Tools funds that it could raise as well
as boor interact investments. So we raised a lot of
dollars that way going into early two thousands to make
sure we were in a good safe position so we
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didn't burn it at the airport with a whole lot
of debt going forward exactly is when that happens. We
had to charge rates the charges to retire that debt
at a time and we're trying to bring business in
business friendly, so it was a big balancing act. We
still go through it today. But then good we were
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able to find those right sized projects and get that
infrastructure in the ground and now things are really paying offers.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That is remarkable, and it's a really short synopsis of
the overwhelming work that I can only imagine had to
go into this. And you did mention the Inland Valley
Development Agency, which you're also the CEO of, talk about
that entity's expanded participation in the effort to grow SBD so.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
And it's very core the ibdas we call it acronym, sorry,
it was the original bas reuse organization. So it was
formed in nineteen ninety as the key joint powers authority
to be that interface, that one stop shop so that
the Air Force didn't have to go to five six
different municipalities or accounting to try to plan out a
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thirty forty fifty year reuse effort. They really valued that,
you know, formative step to be able to bring everybody,
you know to the table. So as a result, the
ib DA has officials from the County Samadina, the City
of Samandine, City of Colton, the City of Long Belinda
as our board directors today, so you have the local
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community involved, you know, every set of the way in
charting the future of this facility, this airport, this business
park that we have now with Alliance California. None of
that could have happened without the IDDA. It also was
able to get redevelopment powers at the time we had
state redevelopment, so a lot of the formative infrastructure, roadway bridges,
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things like that came from that id investment. So you know,
the surrounding area around the airport. We're still working. We're
going to do those partnerships with our city is our
local jurisdiction going after those federal dollars. We have some
of those programs in our way right now. So the
IBDA played a strategic role and then the Airport Authority
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team along in nineteen ninety two, so as the reuse
planning effort grew, the surrounding communities at that time Redlands
and Island wanted us say so as well in the
future path, particularly for the airport itself. So a separate
joint powers Authority was was formed in which is our
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Airport Commission where you have a lot of the same
folks there, including the City of Island as part of
our Border Director. So that's really important that those officials
have to say so and how we do our business
but also how we grow the business of our time.
And they've been just part and supporters. I mean, this
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stuff's not easy to do, but we've got a Greig
team to work.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Absolutely, and that's what it sounds like.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
It sounds like you have a very strong reinforcement of
community leaders, regional leaders that are on your side to
make sure that you have the resources, the funding, the
public policy power to advance these.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Efforts to really support SPD and everything that you're doing
here and the growth that is happening.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
We're going to go into the growth because it's.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Absolutely tremendous, not only for passenger but air cargo, which
is phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
And so right now we're in the executive jet terminal.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
This is the executive jet terminal for lux Air at
San Barantino International Airport.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Tell us what is an executive jet terminal?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Yeah, so the official term of the industry is fixed
base operate, but most people know better with an executive
jet terminals. And when we developed and branded Lexeter SPD
where we're sitting right now, we really wanted to showcase
the best of the best, so really be at one
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pednacle distinguishing characteristic of the airport because it's really is
the front door of the facility. Our staff, our team
that are about there dealing with every customer that we
support is oftentimes the first base and the last space
that a customer sees. And being able to have that
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direct connection to your customers has been just an amazing
tool for us to be able to support our customers
and their needs and their customers customers. So this was
the facility built in twenty ten from the ground up.
So if you were here with me in the nineties,
this was just bear and ramp and dirt and that
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was it. So envisioning this and the surrounding hangars that
it supports really helps our Luxember team do their job
to the fullest. I mean to the point where we're
often recognized as Southern California's premiere executive jet turn We're
pretty proud of that. Famil got recognition internationally and in
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a nutshell, what they do is so important to our business.
They handle all of the support services for every single
customer on the airport, whether they're coming in just for
a quick visit or you know the base carriers that
we support today, little planes, big planes. They do it
all so fuel, concierge services, catering, special events, rental cars, hotels,
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whatever you need. Their one stock shop twenty four to seven.
That is to do an amazing job, honestly for our
hr Proof. This is where they really spend a lot
of their time continuing to add and support the growth
of our team because this business continues to grow double
digit growth since we started the big operation of twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So it is kind of calendar and tunitied and calendar
and counter intuitive because when you think about executive jet terminal,
I'm thinking about you know, jet airplanes and executives coming in,
you know, hopping from city to city.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
But this goes far beyond that.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It goes more into the full concierge experience for all
of your passengers.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Right.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
That is amazing.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
And you know there's some pretty cool folks that fly
in and out of here, celebrities, entertainment acts, but coming
into our local reason for a lot of the great
venues that we now have and at celebrating.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
So it keeps you day interesting, I can imagine.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
So with that said, I I'm thinking back on your
bio and thinking about all of the growth that has
occurred since you took over the reins, and you know
this fine equilibrium of investment and growth, but the job
creation is off the charts.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Talk about that.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
That's that's one of the most exciting and sometimes revealing
things that we do. So up until about two thousand
and nine, we hadn't really analyzed the economic impact of
the closure of the base proper we knew that we
had ten thousand jobs that were bost when the base
closed in nineteen ninety four, living here in the community,
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growing up in this area, I thought I So we
worked with Kelsey Sanbornadena and we did an economic impact
study and found out guess what, ten thousand direct jobs
roughly eight thousand military, two thousand civilian, equated over fifteen
thousand total job stops. Because you think about it, you
know everybody you know lives in a community, Well they
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invest in that community where it via the barbershop or
the grocery store, what have you. There's there's an immediate
impact when when those jobs leave. So every year since
we have done an update to that economic impact study.
The most recent one is that result in twenty twenty three.
So we do a full calendar year, so we've got
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a time to vet the data, make sure we've got
everything is a direct hard job count, so not full
time equivalents, full time jobs that are coming to work
every single day right here, just like Northern Netforce Space
had and that eighteen one hundred jobs equated over four
billion dollars. So think about fifteen thousand jobs lost, that's
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about two point nine billion of economic loss as in
two thousand and nine, we've been able to really chip
away at that in a big, big wading and it
goes to a lot of what your referenced with the
partnerships that we really enjoy and celebrate absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
So when we talk about that job creation, have you
noticed a significant change within the surrounding community downtown summer?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I know I recently had a Chief Darren Goodman of
the Sounds you know, police department here talking about the
investment the support that he's getting to ensure that their
officers are able to keep the streets decembers, you know,
schared for and protected. What is a trickle down effect
do you think of the larger scheme of things when
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you look at the communities, right and this job growth.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
One of one of the things that our partners and
I talked about quite a bit is retention. So we
have been really fortunate, particularly with the Alliance California Business Park,
which was really some of the first let's say, large
scale job creation activities that we had, you know, coming
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into the two thousands, we thought we did pretty good
from from the job creation side with what we had,
but there's only so much you can really do putting
a new business into an old building. And so really
that spark of new investment, new development, new facilities and
the infrastructure that comes with it was a catalyst that
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continues to this day. But the companies that came to
Alliance California stayed at Alliance Californa. And we see that
in a correlary way with the airport to a large degree.
Which when you talk about aerospace aviation employment, the really
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big takeaway for me and looking at the numbers because
you've got a mare out look at the numbers, is
our number two growth industry from an employment standpoint for
the last several years has been air transportation. How cool
was that?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
That is remarkable. That tells you that we need air transportation.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
If you look at our numbers in twenty ten, it
wouldn't even bank the list. So that's a pretty powerful
metach here with our business partners, with our customers and
the flying public because SPD's here to support it.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Yeah, well, it's all in the numbers, and that is
a very powerful analytic.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So we're talking about economic growth in addition to spring
economic growth in the region by attracting businesses and creating jobs,
What areas are what industries are you seeing more of
being attracted in addition to aviation industries.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Well, one of the most exciting programs for me and
just kind of opening my eyes to new opportunities started
in twenty twenty. We opened a US Center at SPD
in the Middle Code back then and at that time,
we're just looking at an economic development, workforce development opportunity
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for this community. Aerospace in California, it used to be
a really big deal or an air Force space had
a significant component of aerospace as part of the strategied
operation that it was in. Trying to find a way
to bring that back to the airport was you know,
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a real challenge. But at that time, Supervisor Hadman was
what was on our IVD A board and he's had
this idea for as long as I've don and we
found a way to do it. And so we were
able to start training people to be drone pilots, you know,
through a virtual curriculum and obviously a live training curriculum
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that's now transcended to actually testing new drone platforms. So
original equipment manufacturers to actually type certify their products right
here and just recently this year we landed our first
drone manufacturer as attendant Brachol. That is pretty cool. And
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when you think about an industry that starts with essentially
being just sixteen years of age, that's on in correctuis it?
And you have to be motivated, yes, but for just
over one hundred dollars you can be a drunk. That's
a pretty powerful tool, a pretty powerful access point to
an industry. As a pilot that's as starting angle pay
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sixty to seventy thousand dollars a year at sixteen years old.
Imagine what we would have done at sixteen years old
was seventy thousand dollars a year. Pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
That's not monopoly.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
I hoped pretty sixteen was a few years ago.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Wow, that is so exciting and that just things into perspective.
I have a sixteen year old. I'm going to have
to remind them about that program. But right now we
are coming up on a break.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Mister Burrows.
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Welcome back everyone, Eva Walker with ABCNFS and Talks Southern
California Business Report here today with Michael Burrows, driving economic
transformation in Southern California as CEO of the Inland Valley
Development Agency and Sammartino International Airport. With twenty eight years
of experience, he has attracted over two point five billion.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Dollars in private investment.
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And created eighteen thousand, one hundred jobs and established airport
as a vital hub exemplifying sustainable growth and collaboration.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Thank you so much for being with us today.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Is to Burrows, Thanks again for being here for good.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
So prior to the break, we talked about the evolution
of SVD and the transition from Norton Air Force Base
to what we see today. Now today, I would like
to congratulate on your third and of verse three of
passenger service at SBD. Please talk a little bit about
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how that makes you feel or how celebrating.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Well it's it is exciting for us, and thank you
again for coming out and we launched. That was really
awesome help leus get the larry out about having this
capability finding upon me time after over thirty years of waiting,
finally in threw tenty twenty two, we were successful in
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convincing Breeze Airways to allow us to be partner West
Coast expansion. So for those who don't know about Breeze,
it is founded by David Meilman who've started Jet Blue
a whole bunch of other airlines. So our team's been
chasing him for many many years and we find the
product of them and we've been flying ever since. So
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Breeze is an interesting and very vital partner for us
to be able to it into that side of the business.
If you were with me in the early days ever
since I started working in and around the projects here,
people have asked me what I do for the always
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different questions when you worked at that airport, when are
you going to be a real here? When can I
buy a ticket and get on a plane and go?
So mean, really for our team compared to large airports,
I mean, we're just scratching search for the s with
the numbers on. But they've allowed us, given how their
structure is, the airline, how well operated they are, to
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grow into that sector incrementally, and they continue to do
that since we started. So obviously that first launch was
our San Francisco Provo service. This past year to February,
we've added a NonStop service to Provo in February and
it's performing extremely well, and you know, that's allowed us
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to really focus with a breeze on the next chapter
for them at SVD. So they're they've been just an
immense partner. They're a lot of fun. So they pride
themselves on being seriously nice treating that customer as well.
I don't set here at BUXARSVB, so the the cultural
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alignment then as a partner, coming out of the gate
as our first passenger alive. Couldn't have been better, I.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Imagine and if you have a tremendous team, including Amber
we have for today, Amber, thank you so much for.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Being what they try to close it. Yeah, it's fun.
We have a jet that sounds like they're running their motors.
So we're gonna close the door, really excited to see
you know, we're no fired in there.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Sorry airport, it's never sleep.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Yeah, it's it's great. Yeah, much better.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
But what does it say to have a team like
the Amber cast Asus of the world to help you
reach that third anniversary and you know, be that next.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Passenger flight resource in Samtimp.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
We obviously in a nut show. We couldn't do it
without her and our team of teams. We had a
very unique and narrow opportunity to pull off that launch.
As much support as we got from Breeze and continue
to get from them. We had to make sure we
also put the airport in position where it was known
as being an airport you could buy a ticket fly out,
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and so we had a very rapid ramp up to
get the terminals ready, to be able to get the
messaging ready to fly SPD as we do today. And
Amber was instrumental in doing that, and doing it not
only in time, but at enough time to where we
could really hit the ground running. So what she particularly
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does with her group is look at those a new
market opportunities to be able to make sure that message
continues to get out there that SBD is a great
alternative in southern California to get to and from this
region nice at a very affordable price.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
So tell us about these flights again, what the frequency is,
and what you're hearing from your passengers in terms of accessibility,
the ease of travel, because it's so easy to travel
through here, right, it's great that.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
The cost of parking is ridiculously Was it still five
dollars a day? Five dollars in dat park here?
Speaker 5 (33:33):
People think I'm buying, I said.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
From the CEO.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Still five dollars a day to park here, So give
us an overy of that.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
So we with an airline like Breeze, who really has
a unique product, we wanted to support that in the
best way if we could. And an ease of access
being able to get to and from the airport quickly easily.
That heard the gate experience coming through the terminal. We
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we really pride ourselves on that. It allowed us to
really sit down with our partners TSA and think through
the flow of the process. And I got to say
TSA is just awesome to work with. They've been fantastic.
They continue to come up with new ideas, look at
new technology for us and that's still the benefit of
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not just the airport but our customers. That's really important.
So being able to hear, hey, yeah, we got to
got to fly to San Francisco last week and okay,
how was it? You know, it was really great, It
was easy. We hear a lot about the parking and
it's just cool. But we want to make sure people
can to get word where they want to go or
where they need to go when they want to go
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right and and that's a that's a unique opportunity for us,
but it's also pretty special. So in the terminals past year,
we've really worked with kind of your experien inside of
the house, looking at some of our amenities while people
are all waiting for a flight, do they want to paste,
they want a cup of coffee, those types of things,
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and how we can just say thank you in our
own way, and it has paid off quite quite nicely
for us. We're hearing a lot of really positive feedback
about that, and we're always looking for new ideas. So
I love that.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
And so right now you're Breeze Airways is traveling from
seventeen oh San Francisco, and then they could breeze on
over to Provo you well, and do you know if
they're looking to add additional routes or so.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Unique thing about Breeze is they're they're well positioned for
their growth. Obviously, they're their kind of origin story was
started on the west coast or side the East coast,
and they work their way west to US and others.
But they've got one of the most robust orders or aircraft,
particularly their their flagship, their LUs A two twenty. So
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as they get new aircraft and new crews, we're constantly
noodling on that next new option is going to be
and we're hoping for something new here soon soon with them.
So obviously we can't buy the planes for them expecially,
but they've been really good at looking out for that
next next opportunity, So stay tuned, all right.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
So we're going to have to follow up on that
one for sure.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
So with that's the top about community engagement, one of
the last times I was at the airport. Also is
you had one of the most remarkable concerts I had
ever seen. It was literally conducted out of an airplane
with the dancer and the singer seeing on the wing.
It was Halsey, which I absolutely I love Halsey. She
was a great performer and she was out there sitting
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on the airplane wing and in the fuselage of the
airplane with her band.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
So tell us about these events.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
And yeah, so that's what we call the world famous
seven and thirty seven plane stage. We own it. That's
a good part of having aircraft maintenance companies as partners.
Thank you, but it's a really unique experience that we're
really proud of. So that plane stage came out of
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one of our air shows that we used to do,
so bringing us air shows back to the community. We
were able to get through five of them, I think,
but then as we got into other business lines, closing
the airspace totally it was just not an option. So
we wanted to continue to give that thank you kind
of experience, you know, another another try kind of re
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envision it. And so what we do now is we
put on a community concert to celebrate our commercial passenger service.
This will be our third year going into it. We
try to do it in the fallward. It's cool, but
that plane stage actually becomes really the backdrop from the
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back of the terminal itself. So now you literally go
through the terminal through a really unique experience down one
of our jet bridges, down an inflatable seven to fifty
seven exits there if you want slide it into the show.
Speaker 14 (38:12):
And it's a it's a really great you know, combined
efforts here with our community partners or our corporate partners,
they sponsor it.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
It's completely free to the public. You can bring volun chairs,
you can bring kids, and I mean, we just really
want to open the doors and say thank you for
supporting SBD and we loved it. It's a lot of them.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Oh, I'm so excited. So do you have a date for.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
This tim We're looking at October. We should have a
punch out on now here shortly. We're trying to firm
up the bands that they kind of have to be
part of it, right, but very similar experience that as
to what you saw, But it's for our team and
their families. It is the one time that we get
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to break every ts a regulation, you know, four not really.
Speaker 15 (39:04):
Tsa often right, right, with the exception of right, with
the exception of having to actually use an inflatable slide
off an airplane, which I hope nobody ever has to
use other than in a.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Case like this for fun to enjoy the full airport experience.
I mean, it sounds like just a great way to
connect with the community.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
What's the feedback that you've.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Got, Well, it's it's it's been pretty exciting, actually, very positive,
very positive. Again Amber and her team, if I do
a lot of amazing follow up with our growing invite
list here over year. So we call it cruising at.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Altitude, Cruising at altitude everyone, just.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Just as an homage to thank our partners for helping
them put us on apter and we're looking forward to
a fun show you're coming up this fall.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Very nice. Well, maybe I misspoken.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
It was wishful thanking asking for Halisey, but it's actually
sh so Shade was a great performer as well, but
I don't know were they performing their songs?
Speaker 4 (40:06):
I don't know, maybe, but it's.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
A great way to spend an afternoon with the family,
with the community. I mean, how many people actually come
out because when I came out, this was when I
was about three years ago, there were thousands.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
So last year we hit over four thousand attendees. It's
just the coolest.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
So that's exciting.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
Again, stay tuned on that, and we should ask the
messaging coming up.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Crazy at altitude.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Everybody keep it on your radar because we will be
sharing more information about that.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
It's a great event.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
Thanks for being there. That's cool.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
Absolutely. And so we were talking a little bit about
some of the.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Workforce development that you are looking at within the drone
sphere and the role that the airport plays in that dynamic.
What other workforce development efforts do you participate in for
the benefit of aviation, aeronomics.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
Things about nature.
Speaker 12 (41:02):
So our.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
Region as we know is this we're really forced in
the educational institutions that we have. The talent of the
individuals that are running the show just couldn't couldn't be
in a better position. So we do a lot of
work with Samuel Valley College, particularly their airframe of power
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plant Mechanics, because aircraft maintenance is such a core component
of our customer base. They help us helped us really
get activity in the hangars in those Goldrum days in
the nineteen nineties and they still are a major, major
cornerstone of supporting all of our business lines out here,
So we try to make sure that we're supporting their
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programs because those aircraft mechanics and what they're about in
the process of launching is an air traffic controller programmed,
which you hear a lot about. We need to qualifying
so it's not just pileage. There's a lot of other
professionals out there that are needed to keep that balance
and that amazing dance in the sky is bill.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Try to keep everything safe and the passenger experience safe.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
So they do a fantastic job. A lot of the
other schools, California Baptist University has some great programs. Our
Samuel County Superintendent of Schools is a foundational partner in
the drone training program with their ROP program, and then
we try to find with creative ways to help out
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our youth. We're doing that k through twelve sectors. So
a few years back we started a scholarship program through
our SVV Care nonprofit and be more most recently awarded
for scholarships to some amazing young people that want to
pursue their careers in aviation, one of which at Valley College,
which you know, pretty cool right here around backyard. And
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then supporting our tenants and really listening to their needs
on how they are going to grow their employment, so
our human resource administration team gets really engaged with them,
making sure they've got the proper contacts when we're onboarding
a new tenant or a new business, really getting them
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at the foundational front end stage like the drone program,
Hey do you need training? Do you need skills? Training
or assessments And working with our partners at Accounting Workforce Development,
they're absolutely amazing. They've just been over backwards to help
and making sure people know coming into this area if
you're not from the area, that we have a lot
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of really rich resources to help you out not only
set up your business, but grow.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
Your business exactly.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
And that's what makes our regions so unique and it's
a true testament to what can happen with innovators, collaborators
and community minded people come together for the benefit not
only of the community but for the businesses. And like
you said, you're offering this concierge service and support to
your tenants as well, Like not only do we want
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you to be our tenant, We want to support you
to growing.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
How can we help do that?
Speaker 2 (44:07):
And that is really the magic that happens here in
this region. So for everybody that's listening, please remember that
that's a true testament to why the region.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
Is in the position that it is today. And it's
truly an economic driver when you.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Look at the landscape right across the board, and I
would argue it's an economic driver not only for California
but across the country. And with that said, I know
a big part of that has to do with the
cargo operations and growth.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
Please talk down that.
Speaker 5 (44:36):
Yeah, that we actually began again a former supply based
military installation, Norton did a ton of car it was
just baked into our DNA, Yet it took years for
us to be able to get regularly scheduled commercial car service.
So twenty seventeen marked a really a major kind of
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growth set for us. And the fact that we finally
after a lot of years chasing, convinced ups to try
us out. So didn't seem like much of the time,
Hey you got a holiday season, try us out for
some holiday packages. We hit it off. Everything worked out,
you know, the way we needed it to, and we
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immediately went to work rebuilding and renovating at Midfield Henry
you see out the right there, which is now their
busiest gateway in southern California, and so obviously Ontario's the hub,
the mother ship that became their business gateway in the
first year in twenty seventh. So if you look to
us prior to that, at one hundred and forty air
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cargo airports in the country, we were almost less so
really just being able to get into that sector was
huts followed the following year, and then in twenty twenty one,
of course, we were able to open the Amazon air
Southern California, sort of the Amazon version of what UPS
has in Ontario.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Right, So let's talk about that relationship with Ontario International
Airport that also moves cargo, and how you work together
Ontario National Airport with Sandino International Airport to secure that
cargo efficiency for the broader region.
Speaker 5 (46:24):
It's well number one, we talked to each other. Yeah
that's not right. So yes, I can actually call Audiff
over there if you do. We are on a border
or two together, so we do see each other and
we compare notes. Honestly, what's good for Ontario. It's good
for SPP. I say that everywhere I go, and I'm
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really proud of what they've been able to achieve over there.
So if you think about it where we sit right
here in San Bnadino County, this past here, we hit
twenty fifth in the nation in air card Ontario hit tenth.
You have the twenty fifth busiest and the tenth busiest
air pargo airport in the country right here in one county.
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That's amazing, is cool, and that means looking at those
creative ways to make sure cargoes moved when it needs
to move. And nothing against our partners at Las, but
it can take a while to get onto the airport
at LAX. So we build a all air cargo specific
access right off the tippy Canoe to get the trucks
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off the road onto the airport for ups and FedEx,
and we open that of Amazon Air has its own
direct entrances right on the third street, so they can
get on and off the road when they need to
and get that carget movement, so that much of the
terminal that curve the gate experience cargo works the same
way right almost almost more speed, you know, time is everything.
Speaker 4 (47:51):
Exactly, cargo everything, time is money. Some of it may
be time related.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
It can expire if it's food, if it's refrigerated, so
much things to have into consideration.
Speaker 4 (48:02):
But in addition to this, you know, something that I think.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
A lot of people may forget about is the piece
that this airport and others like this play in emergency
response and disaster relief. Let's talk a little bit about
what your capabilities are in supporting emergency response efforts and
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disaster relief operations. And in addition to that, of course,
because we're coming up to the end of the program,
tell us what is on the horizon for Samdia International
Airport and mister.
Speaker 5 (48:36):
Michael Burrows, No, it's we are extremely well positioned to
support our first responders. We pride ourselves in our ability
to do that. So right across the ramp over there
is the USA for a Service Air Tanker base for
this region. As you know, that gets really busy during
wildfare season. This locks of air team supports them all
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their fuel and support needs. We have the samy Ato
Regional Emergency Training Center which trains UH airport rescue and
firefighting crews from all over the world. They do an
amazing job there. And we are home to Samuel County
Sheriffs Aviations Aviation headquarters here, so with the largest accounting
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in the contiguous US, you need your own aviation team
to be able to support that search and rescue operations,
medical volunteer forces, and you know, we're we're always open
for business. So even in some of the military partners
that have to come in on those large feel events,
know they've got a safe place in an open space
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here at SVD That is remarkable.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
So what do you see in the future for sad
On International Airport the next five ten years?
Speaker 5 (49:54):
And you and Michael girls, Well, I'm so pleased with
how we've been able to grow and support all of
our business lines, and there's not one that's more important
than the other. We really appreciate every single one of them.
I do see on the horizon hopefully more activity in
the passenger arena. Like I said, we're always looking at
new city pair fits for the Breeze formula and hopefully
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growing our international presence. So obviously having US customs based here,
we've supported them, they've supported us since nineteen ninety nine.
The Foreign Trade Zone program that we've had with our
Port of Long Beach partners since nineteen ninety six, really
looking at those unique opportunities to open an international trade
capability for our region because I do know being an
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Export Council member, how much international trade this region has
supported support going forward, and I think we have a
big role to play in that.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
Stay tuned on that all So we will definitely stay
tuned on all of it.
Speaker 4 (51:01):
But unfortunately it's the end of the program.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
Thank you so much for being with us today, mister
Burroughs and Amber for your support and everybody at the airport.
It's a beautiful transformation and this team is a testament
to what can happen when innovation, collaboration and vision come together.
So I'm sorry everybody, but for everybody that wants to
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of public safety reform, he champions legislative changed, advocating for
Proposition thirty six, enhancing California's criminal justice system.
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leaders behind it. Okay, everybody, speaking of leaders, I'm absolutely
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Southern California, Michael Burrows stands at the forefront of transformative
economic development as the chief executive officer of the Inland
Valley Development Agency and San Bernardino International Airport. With over
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twenty eight years of a distinguished experience spanning public and
private sectors, Burroughs has masterlinded the revitalization of the former
Nordan Air Force Base, spearheading projects that have attracted over
two point five billion dollars in private investment and resulted
in the creation of more than eighteen thousand, one hundred
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direct jobs.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
His visionary leadership has not only facilitated the development of
sixteen million square feet of new infrastructure, but has also
positioned the airport as a critical hub for air, cargo
and passenger services.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Including the launch of daily flights to key destinations. By
fostering public private partnerships and strategic a witnesses, Burrows exemplifies
a commitment to sustainable growth, making a lasting impact on
the Inland Empire's economic landscape. His journey is a testament
to the power of innovation and collaboration in shaping communities
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for the future. Thank you so much for making the
time to share your.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Work with us today, mister Burrows.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Wow, well, thank you for that intro. I'm not sure
I know that, Mike, but I really appreciate it and
really well, and welcome you back to SBD. Thank you
for being thank you for.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Doing us absolutely well.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
As you noted earlier, the last time we spoke was
journeying the pandemic season.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
We were conducting this interview via zoom.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
But look at this.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
This is much better the zoom screen, don't you all agree?
So let's start off by talking about your journey. Let's
talk about your journey and becoming the CEO of some
you know in the National Airport.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Yeah, it actually it's it's still weird to hear the
title sometimes, but I've actually been involved with both agencies,
the in the Valley Development Agency and the airport since
the late nineteen nineties. So I started in my twenties
at that time as an intern and then writing grants,
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eventually doing real estate and other stuff. So being able
to see this place grow in the way that it
has over the years, with you know, the thousands and
thousands of folks that have really come in and invested
and helped us along the way, it was just pretty powerful.
So I kind of liked this room because it reminds
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me of you know, the landscape here because we've really
seen a lot of change is taken some time, right,
and I got to really, you know, give it up
for the community, for their patients, but their support, it's
it's been pretty amazing.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
So what is that like stepping into a retired Air
Force bace.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
What gives us a quick landscape of what you walked
into so we can truly appreciate what we see today.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yeah, it's particularly in the nineties, it was rough going.
So Norton was announced for closure in nineteen eighty eight.
So this was an our Air Force base and this
for those of us that grew up in the community
I did, this was a huge economic engine for the
entire region and particularly our county at that time was
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severely impacted. So our official closure date was nineteen ninety four.
But in that span of time, you had Kaiser Steel Clothes,
you had Norton an announced forclosure. In the up in
the High Desert, you'd have George Air Force Base Victorville. Yeah,
major installations, major employers, all closed within years of each
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other in the same county at the same time. You
could feel it, and it just it hurt and really hurt.
But being on the ground at the time that I
got here, it also was inspired so I like to
stay here at SBD that we have a proud humility
in part because of that the heritage that we essentially
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still have for the immense history of ourn Air Force base.
I think you'll find throughout all of our teams of
teams even today. But we're also very proud of the
hundreds and thousands of people that have worked year of
a year of a year to get us to where
we are today. So that's a pretty special feeling to
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be able to do that. But if you were here
in the mid nineties, you wouldn't see aircraft out there
like this. We were still trying to inventory with the
Air Force what we were getting. Everybody thought it was
that worked for the Air Force. Just change the lots,
open the doors the business store, right, And I got
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admit I was one of the thought, well, my dad
was stationed here, of course that stuff works great, you know,
he was an engineer. So but but but we got through,
and I got to say, the Air Force was and
still is an amazing partner with us. They as far
as base closures go, we're really proactive. So a lot
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of the environmental cleanup they initiated even before the closure
dates started so that helped us out a lot. But
we had to really just face the brutal facts when
it came to the infrastructure and and really take the
time to inventory what we have but also what we
did have, and and that's that's kind of tough to
do when the pressure was on to get some jobs
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and deployment back. But but we learned some good lessons
at that point, and I think that's allowed us to
really manage our groups, and you know, it's not easy
to do, but but those were good lessons learned when
we were a fledgling, you know, tiny group of organizations,
and that's where we spent most of our time, but
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also trying to find the funding to replace, repair, rebuild
all of this infrastructure, which we're still down to this day.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Right, Can you talk about what some of those major
infrastructure structure projects look like and what some of these
innovative funding mechanisms are that you implement.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
To fund them. So the biggest one is thanks to
a whole lot of collaboration at the federal level. I
gotta say the FA continues to be an amazing partner
with everything that we do out here. But Congressman Jerry
Lewis Congressman George Brown in those formative days really work
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very closely to him, to the point where Congressman Lewis
was able to get US funding to completely replace our growth.
You know, it was a four year project over thirty
five million dollars. But that runaway now handles the largest
aircraft are flying in the ward. So we talked about
big investments. But other things you take for granted. At
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Pedan Airport, our control we had to renovate the control town.
And you hear a lot of talk about control town.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It is because it's a very relevant important You're a
d of the trend, right you started, yeah, investing in
that infrastructure decades ago, versus just now when it's kind
of on the map of oh you need to take
a look at yeah, these towers.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Yeah. And then it went to the facilities, so we
were very blessed with some marchin ers. This was a
five base, so you had a lot of aircraft maintenance infrastructure.
You had a good sized, right size domestic terminal. Really
did true movements for all of the branches. No one's here.
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He went up through desert storm. So we're still flying
troops in the nineties as the closure process. But you know,
we've had to supplement that this facility that we're sitting
in didn't exist, you know, until twenty ten, and so
what we had to do to finance this was really
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that collaboration between our Inland Value Development Agents Agency, the
Economic Development Tools funds that it could raise as well
as boor interact investments. So we raised a lot of
dollars that way going into early two thousands to make
sure we were in a good safe position so we
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didn't burn it at the airport with a whole lot
of debt going forward exactly is when that happens. We
had to charge rates the charges to retire that debt
at a time and we're trying to bring business in
business friendly, so it was a big balancing act. We
still go through it today. But then good we were
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able to find those right sized projects and get that
infrastructure in the ground and now things are really paying offers.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
That is remarkable, and it's a really short synopsis of
the overwhelming work that I can only imagine had to
go into this. And you did mention the Inland Valley
Development Agency, which you're also the CEO of, talk about
that entity's expanded participation in the effort to grow SBD so.
Speaker 5 (10:31):
And it's very core the ibdas we call it acronym, sorry,
it was the original bas reuse organization. So it was
formed in nineteen ninety as the key joint powers authority
to be that interface, that one stop shop so that
the Air Force didn't have to go to five six
different municipalities or accounting to try to plan out a
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thirty forty fifty year reuse effort. They really valued that,
you know, formative step to be able to bring everybody,
you know to the table. So as a result, the
ib DA has officials from the County Samadina, the City
of Samandine, City of Colton, the City of Long Belinda
as our board directors today, so you have the local
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community involved, you know, every set of the way in
charting the future of this facility, this airport, this business
park that we have now with Alliance California. None of
that could have happened without the IDDA. It also was
able to get redevelopment powers at the time we had
state redevelopment, so a lot of the formative infrastructure, roadway bridges,
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things like that came from that id investment. So you know,
the surrounding area around the airport. We're still working. We're
going to do those partnerships with our city is our
local jurisdiction going after those federal dollars. We have some
of those programs in our way right now. So the
IBDA played a strategic role and then the Airport Authority
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team along in nineteen ninety two, so as the reuse
planning effort grew, the surrounding communities at that time Redlands
and Island wanted us say so as well in the
future path, particularly for the airport itself. So a separate
joint powers Authority was was formed in which is our
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Airport Commission where you have a lot of the same
folks there, including the City of Island as part of
our Border Director. So that's really important that those officials
have to say so and how we do our business
but also how we grow the business of our time.
And they've been just part and supporters. I mean, this
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stuff's not easy to do, but we've got a Greig
team to work.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Absolutely, and that's what it sounds like.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
It sounds like you have a very strong reinforcement of
community leaders, regional leaders that are on your side to
make sure that you have the resources, the funding, the
public policy power to advance these.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Efforts to really support SPD and everything that you're doing
here and the growth that is happening.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
We're going to go into the growth because it's.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Absolutely tremendous, not only for passenger but air cargo, which
is phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
And so right now we're in the executive jet terminal.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
This is the executive jet terminal for lux Air at
San Barantino International Airport.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Tell us what is an executive jet terminal?
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Yeah, so the official term of the industry is fixed
base operate, but most people know better with an executive
jet terminals. And when we developed and branded Lexeter SPD
where we're sitting right now, we really wanted to showcase
the best of the best, so really be at one
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pednacle distinguishing characteristic of the airport because it's really is
the front door of the facility. Our staff, our team
that are about there dealing with every customer that we
support is oftentimes the first base and the last space
that a customer sees. And being able to have that
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direct connection to your customers has been just an amazing
tool for us to be able to support our customers
and their needs and their customers customers. So this was
the facility built in twenty ten from the ground up.
So if you were here with me in the nineties,
this was just bear and ramp and dirt and that
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was it. So envisioning this and the surrounding hangars that
it supports really helps our Luxember team do their job
to the fullest. I mean to the point where we're
often recognized as Southern California's premiere executive jet turn We're
pretty proud of that. Famil got recognition internationally and in
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a nutshell, what they do is so important to our business.
They handle all of the support services for every single
customer on the airport, whether they're coming in just for
a quick visit or you know the base carriers that
we support today, little planes, big planes. They do it
all so fuel, concierge services, catering, special events, rental cars, hotels,
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whatever you need. Their one stock shop twenty four to seven.
That is to do an amazing job, honestly for our
hr Proof. This is where they really spend a lot
of their time continuing to add and support the growth
of our team because this business continues to grow double
digit growth since we started the big operation of twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So it is kind of calendar and tunitied and calendar
and counter intuitive because when you think about executive jet terminal,
I'm thinking about you know, jet airplanes and executives coming in,
you know, hopping from city to city.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
But this goes far beyond that.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It goes more into the full concierge experience for all
of your passengers.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Right.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
That is amazing.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
And you know there's some pretty cool folks that fly
in and out of here, celebrities, entertainment acts, but coming
into our local reason for a lot of the great
venues that we now have and at celebrating.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
So it keeps you day interesting, I can imagine.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
So with that said, I I'm thinking back on your
bio and thinking about all of the growth that has
occurred since you took over the reins, and you know
this fine equilibrium of investment and growth, but the job
creation is off the charts.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Talk about that.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
That's that's one of the most exciting and sometimes revealing
things that we do. So up until about two thousand
and nine, we hadn't really analyzed the economic impact of
the closure of the base proper we knew that we
had ten thousand jobs that were bost when the base
closed in nineteen ninety four, living here in the community,
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growing up in this area, I thought I So we
worked with Kelsey Sanbornadena and we did an economic impact
study and found out guess what, ten thousand direct jobs
roughly eight thousand military, two thousand civilian, equated over fifteen
thousand total job stops. Because you think about it, you
know everybody you know lives in a community, Well they
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invest in that community where it via the barbershop or
the grocery store, what have you. There's there's an immediate
impact when when those jobs leave. So every year since
we have done an update to that economic impact study.
The most recent one is that result in twenty twenty three.
So we do a full calendar year, so we've got
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a time to vet the data, make sure we've got
everything is a direct hard job count, so not full
time equivalents, full time jobs that are coming to work
every single day right here, just like Northern Netforce Space
had and that eighteen one hundred jobs equated over four
billion dollars. So think about fifteen thousand jobs lost, that's
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about two point nine billion of economic loss as in
two thousand and nine, we've been able to really chip
away at that in a big, big wading and it
goes to a lot of what your referenced with the
partnerships that we really enjoy and celebrate absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
So when we talk about that job creation, have you
noticed a significant change within the surrounding community downtown summer?
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Do you know?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I know I recently had a Chief Darren Goodman of
the Sounds you know, police department here talking about the
investment the support that he's getting to ensure that their
officers are able to keep the streets decembers, you know,
schared for and protected. What is a trickle down effect
do you think of the larger scheme of things when
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you look at the communities, right and this job growth.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
One of one of the things that our partners and
I talked about quite a bit is retention. So we
have been really fortunate, particularly with the Alliance California Business Park,
which was really some of the first let's say, large
scale job creation activities that we had, you know, coming
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into the two thousands, we thought we did pretty good
from from the job creation side with what we had,
but there's only so much you can really do putting
a new business into an old building. And so really
that spark of new investment, new development, new facilities and
the infrastructure that comes with it was a catalyst that
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continues to this day. But the companies that came to
Alliance California stayed at Alliance Californa. And we see that
in a correlary way with the airport to a large degree.
Which when you talk about aerospace aviation employment, the really
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big takeaway for me and looking at the numbers because
you've got a mare out look at the numbers, is
our number two growth industry from an employment standpoint for
the last several years has been air transportation. How cool
was that?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
That is remarkable. That tells you that we need air transportation.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
If you look at our numbers in twenty ten, it
wouldn't even bank the list. So that's a pretty powerful
metach here with our business partners, with our customers and
the flying public because SPD's here to support it.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Yeah, well, it's all in the numbers, and that is
a very powerful analytic.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
So we're talking about economic growth in addition to spring
economic growth in the region by attracting businesses and creating jobs,
What areas are what industries are you seeing more of
being attracted in addition to aviation industries.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Well, one of the most exciting programs for me and
just kind of opening my eyes to new opportunities started
in twenty twenty. We opened a US Center at SPD
in the Middle Code back then and at that time,
we're just looking at an economic development, workforce development opportunity
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for this community. Aerospace in California, it used to be
a really big deal or an air Force space had
a significant component of aerospace as part of the strategied
operation that it was in. Trying to find a way
to bring that back to the airport was you know,
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a real challenge. But at that time, Supervisor Hadman was
what was on our IVD A board and he's had
this idea for as long as I've don and we
found a way to do it. And so we were
able to start training people to be drone pilots, you know,
through a virtual curriculum and obviously a live training curriculum
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that's now transcended to actually testing new drone platforms. So
original equipment manufacturers to actually type certify their products right
here and just recently this year we landed our first
drone manufacturer as attendant Brachol. That is pretty cool. And
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when you think about an industry that starts with essentially
being just sixteen years of age, that's on in correctuis it?
And you have to be motivated, yes, but for just
over one hundred dollars you can be a drunk. That's
a pretty powerful tool, a pretty powerful access point to
an industry. As a pilot that's as starting angle pay
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sixty to seventy thousand dollars a year at sixteen years old.
Imagine what we would have done at sixteen years old
was seventy thousand dollars a year. Pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
That's not monopoly.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
I hoped pretty sixteen was a few years ago.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Wow, that is so exciting and that just things into perspective.
I have a sixteen year old. I'm going to have
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Speaker 2 (28:43):
So prior to the break, we talked about the evolution
of SVD and the transition from Norton Air Force Base
to what we see today. Now today, I would like
to congratulate on your third and of verse three of
passenger service at SBD. Please talk a little bit about
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how that makes you feel or how celebrating.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Well it's it is exciting for us, and thank you
again for coming out and we launched. That was really
awesome help leus get the larry out about having this
capability finding upon me time after over thirty years of waiting,
finally in threw tenty twenty two, we were successful in
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convincing Breeze Airways to allow us to be partner West
Coast expansion. So for those who don't know about Breeze,
it is founded by David Meilman who've started Jet Blue
a whole bunch of other airlines. So our team's been
chasing him for many many years and we find the
product of them and we've been flying ever since. So
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Breeze is an interesting and very vital partner for us
to be able to it into that side of the business.
If you were with me in the early days ever
since I started working in and around the projects here,
people have asked me what I do for the always
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different questions when you worked at that airport, when are
you going to be a real here? When can I
buy a ticket and get on a plane and go?
So mean, really for our team compared to large airports,
I mean, we're just scratching search for the s with
the numbers on. But they've allowed us, given how their
structure is, the airline, how well operated they are, to
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grow into that sector incrementally, and they continue to do
that since we started. So obviously that first launch was
our San Francisco Provo service. This past year to February,
we've added a NonStop service to Provo in February and
it's performing extremely well, and you know, that's allowed us
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to really focus with a breeze on the next chapter
for them at SVD. So they're they've been just an
immense partner. They're a lot of fun. So they pride
themselves on being seriously nice treating that customer as well.
I don't set here at BUXARSVB, so the the cultural
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alignment then as a partner, coming out of the gate
as our first passenger alive. Couldn't have been better, I.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Imagine and if you have a tremendous team, including Amber
we have for today, Amber, thank you so much for.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Being what they try to close it. Yeah, it's fun.
We have a jet that sounds like they're running their motors.
So we're gonna close the door, really excited to see
you know, we're no fired in there.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Sorry airport, it's never sleep.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
Yeah, it's it's great. Yeah, much better.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
But what does it say to have a team like
the Amber cast Asus of the world to help you
reach that third anniversary and you know, be that next.
Speaker 4 (32:10):
Passenger flight resource in Samtimp.
Speaker 5 (32:13):
We obviously in a nut show. We couldn't do it
without her and our team of teams. We had a
very unique and narrow opportunity to pull off that launch.
As much support as we got from Breeze and continue
to get from them. We had to make sure we
also put the airport in position where it was known
as being an airport you could buy a ticket fly out,
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and so we had a very rapid ramp up to
get the terminals ready, to be able to get the
messaging ready to fly SPD as we do today. And
Amber was instrumental in doing that, and doing it not
only in time, but at enough time to where we
could really hit the ground running. So what she particularly
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does with her group is look at those a new
market opportunities to be able to make sure that message
continues to get out there that SBD is a great
alternative in southern California to get to and from this
region nice at a very affordable price.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
So tell us about these flights again, what the frequency is,
and what you're hearing from your passengers in terms of accessibility,
the ease of travel, because it's so easy to travel
through here, right, it's great that.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
The cost of parking is ridiculously Was it still five
dollars a day? Five dollars in dat park here?
Speaker 5 (33:33):
People think I'm buying, I said.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
From the CEO.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Still five dollars a day to park here, So give
us an overy of that.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
So we with an airline like Breeze, who really has
a unique product, we wanted to support that in the
best way if we could. And an ease of access
being able to get to and from the airport quickly easily.
That heard the gate experience coming through the terminal. We
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we really pride ourselves on that. It allowed us to
really sit down with our partners TSA and think through
the flow of the process. And I got to say
TSA is just awesome to work with. They've been fantastic.
They continue to come up with new ideas, look at
new technology for us and that's still the benefit of
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not just the airport but our customers. That's really important.
So being able to hear, hey, yeah, we got to
got to fly to San Francisco last week and okay,
how was it? You know, it was really great, It
was easy. We hear a lot about the parking and
it's just cool. But we want to make sure people
can to get word where they want to go or
where they need to go when they want to go
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right and and that's a that's a unique opportunity for us,
but it's also pretty special. So in the terminals past year,
we've really worked with kind of your experien inside of
the house, looking at some of our amenities while people
are all waiting for a flight, do they want to paste,
they want a cup of coffee, those types of things,
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and how we can just say thank you in our
own way, and it has paid off quite quite nicely
for us. We're hearing a lot of really positive feedback
about that, and we're always looking for new ideas. So
I love that.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
And so right now you're Breeze Airways is traveling from
seventeen oh San Francisco, and then they could breeze on
over to Provo you well, and do you know if
they're looking to add additional routes or so.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
Unique thing about Breeze is they're they're well positioned for
their growth. Obviously, they're their kind of origin story was
started on the west coast or side the East coast,
and they work their way west to US and others.
But they've got one of the most robust orders or aircraft,
particularly their their flagship, their LUs A two twenty. So
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as they get new aircraft and new crews, we're constantly
noodling on that next new option is going to be
and we're hoping for something new here soon soon with them.
So obviously we can't buy the planes for them expecially,
but they've been really good at looking out for that
next next opportunity, So stay tuned, all right.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
So we're going to have to follow up on that
one for sure.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
So with that's the top about community engagement, one of
the last times I was at the airport. Also is
you had one of the most remarkable concerts I had
ever seen. It was literally conducted out of an airplane
with the dancer and the singer seeing on the wing.
It was Halsey, which I absolutely I love Halsey. She
was a great performer and she was out there sitting
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on the airplane wing and in the fuselage of the
airplane with her band.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
So tell us about these events.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
And yeah, so that's what we call the world famous
seven and thirty seven plane stage. We own it. That's
a good part of having aircraft maintenance companies as partners.
Thank you, but it's a really unique experience that we're
really proud of. So that plane stage came out of
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one of our air shows that we used to do,
so bringing us air shows back to the community. We
were able to get through five of them, I think,
but then as we got into other business lines, closing
the airspace totally it was just not an option. So
we wanted to continue to give that thank you kind
of experience, you know, another another try kind of re
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envision it. And so what we do now is we
put on a community concert to celebrate our commercial passenger service.
This will be our third year going into it. We
try to do it in the fallward. It's cool, but
that plane stage actually becomes really the backdrop from the
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back of the terminal itself. So now you literally go
through the terminal through a really unique experience down one
of our jet bridges, down an inflatable seven to fifty
seven exits there if you want slide it into the show.
Speaker 14 (38:12):
And it's a it's a really great you know, combined
efforts here with our community partners or our corporate partners,
they sponsor it.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
It's completely free to the public. You can bring volun chairs,
you can bring kids, and I mean, we just really
want to open the doors and say thank you for
supporting SBD and we loved it. It's a lot of them.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Oh, I'm so excited. So do you have a date for.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
This tim We're looking at October. We should have a
punch out on now here shortly. We're trying to firm
up the bands that they kind of have to be
part of it, right, but very similar experience that as
to what you saw, But it's for our team and
their families. It is the one time that we get
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to break every ts a regulation, you know, four not really.
Speaker 15 (39:04):
Tsa often right, right, with the exception of right, with
the exception of having to actually use an inflatable slide
off an airplane, which I hope nobody ever has to
use other than in a.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Case like this for fun to enjoy the full airport experience.
I mean, it sounds like just a great way to
connect with the community.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
What's the feedback that you've.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Got, Well, it's it's it's been pretty exciting, actually, very positive,
very positive. Again Amber and her team, if I do
a lot of amazing follow up with our growing invite
list here over year. So we call it cruising at.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Altitude, Cruising at altitude everyone, just.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
Just as an homage to thank our partners for helping
them put us on apter and we're looking forward to
a fun show you're coming up this fall.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Very nice. Well, maybe I misspoken.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
It was wishful thanking asking for Halisey, but it's actually
sh so Shade was a great performer as well, but
I don't know were they performing their songs?
Speaker 4 (40:06):
I don't know, maybe, but it's.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
A great way to spend an afternoon with the family,
with the community. I mean, how many people actually come
out because when I came out, this was when I
was about three years ago, there were thousands.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
So last year we hit over four thousand attendees. It's
just the coolest.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
So that's exciting.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
Again, stay tuned on that, and we should ask the
messaging coming up.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Crazy at altitude.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Everybody keep it on your radar because we will be
sharing more information about that.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
It's a great event.
Speaker 5 (40:37):
Thanks for being there. That's cool.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
Absolutely. And so we were talking a little bit about
some of the.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Workforce development that you are looking at within the drone
sphere and the role that the airport plays in that dynamic.
What other workforce development efforts do you participate in for
the benefit of aviation, aeronomics.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
Things about nature.
Speaker 12 (41:02):
So our.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
Region as we know is this we're really forced in
the educational institutions that we have. The talent of the
individuals that are running the show just couldn't couldn't be
in a better position. So we do a lot of
work with Samuel Valley College, particularly their airframe of power
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plant Mechanics, because aircraft maintenance is such a core component
of our customer base. They help us helped us really
get activity in the hangars in those Goldrum days in
the nineteen nineties and they still are a major, major
cornerstone of supporting all of our business lines out here,
So we try to make sure that we're supporting their
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programs because those aircraft mechanics and what they're about in
the process of launching is an air traffic controller programmed,
which you hear a lot about. We need to qualifying
so it's not just pileage. There's a lot of other
professionals out there that are needed to keep that balance
and that amazing dance in the sky is bill.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Try to keep everything safe and the passenger experience safe.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
So they do a fantastic job. A lot of the
other schools, California Baptist University has some great programs. Our
Samuel County Superintendent of Schools is a foundational partner in
the drone training program with their ROP program, and then
we try to find with creative ways to help out
(42:30):
our youth. We're doing that k through twelve sectors. So
a few years back we started a scholarship program through
our SVV Care nonprofit and be more most recently awarded
for scholarships to some amazing young people that want to
pursue their careers in aviation, one of which at Valley College,
which you know, pretty cool right here around backyard. And
(42:54):
then supporting our tenants and really listening to their needs
on how they are going to grow their employment, so
our human resource administration team gets really engaged with them,
making sure they've got the proper contacts when we're onboarding
a new tenant or a new business, really getting them
(43:14):
at the foundational front end stage like the drone program,
Hey do you need training? Do you need skills? Training
or assessments And working with our partners at Accounting Workforce Development,
they're absolutely amazing. They've just been over backwards to help
and making sure people know coming into this area if
you're not from the area, that we have a lot
(43:36):
of really rich resources to help you out not only
set up your business, but grow.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
Your business exactly.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
And that's what makes our regions so unique and it's
a true testament to what can happen with innovators, collaborators
and community minded people come together for the benefit not
only of the community but for the businesses. And like
you said, you're offering this concierge service and support to
your tenants as well, Like not only do we want
(44:02):
you to be our tenant, We want to support you
to growing.
Speaker 4 (44:05):
How can we help do that?
Speaker 2 (44:07):
And that is really the magic that happens here in
this region. So for everybody that's listening, please remember that
that's a true testament to why the region.
Speaker 4 (44:17):
Is in the position that it is today. And it's
truly an economic driver when you.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Look at the landscape right across the board, and I
would argue it's an economic driver not only for California
but across the country. And with that said, I know
a big part of that has to do with the
cargo operations and growth.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
Please talk down that.
Speaker 5 (44:36):
Yeah, that we actually began again a former supply based
military installation, Norton did a ton of car it was
just baked into our DNA, Yet it took years for
us to be able to get regularly scheduled commercial car service.
So twenty seventeen marked a really a major kind of
(45:05):
growth set for us. And the fact that we finally
after a lot of years chasing, convinced ups to try
us out. So didn't seem like much of the time,
Hey you got a holiday season, try us out for
some holiday packages. We hit it off. Everything worked out,
you know, the way we needed it to, and we
(45:25):
immediately went to work rebuilding and renovating at Midfield Henry
you see out the right there, which is now their
busiest gateway in southern California, and so obviously Ontario's the hub,
the mother ship that became their business gateway in the
first year in twenty seventh. So if you look to
us prior to that, at one hundred and forty air
(45:47):
cargo airports in the country, we were almost less so
really just being able to get into that sector was
huts followed the following year, and then in twenty twenty one,
of course, we were able to open the Amazon air
Southern California, sort of the Amazon version of what UPS
has in Ontario.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Right, So let's talk about that relationship with Ontario International
Airport that also moves cargo, and how you work together
Ontario National Airport with Sandino International Airport to secure that
cargo efficiency for the broader region.
Speaker 5 (46:24):
It's well number one, we talked to each other. Yeah
that's not right. So yes, I can actually call Audiff
over there if you do. We are on a border
or two together, so we do see each other and
we compare notes. Honestly, what's good for Ontario. It's good
for SPP. I say that everywhere I go, and I'm
(46:46):
really proud of what they've been able to achieve over there.
So if you think about it where we sit right
here in San Bnadino County, this past here, we hit
twenty fifth in the nation in air card Ontario hit tenth.
You have the twenty fifth busiest and the tenth busiest
air pargo airport in the country right here in one county.
(47:07):
That's amazing, is cool, and that means looking at those
creative ways to make sure cargoes moved when it needs
to move. And nothing against our partners at Las, but
it can take a while to get onto the airport
at LAX. So we build a all air cargo specific
access right off the tippy Canoe to get the trucks
(47:28):
off the road onto the airport for ups and FedEx,
and we open that of Amazon Air has its own
direct entrances right on the third street, so they can
get on and off the road when they need to
and get that carget movement, so that much of the
terminal that curve the gate experience cargo works the same
way right almost almost more speed, you know, time is everything.
Speaker 4 (47:51):
Exactly, cargo everything, time is money. Some of it may
be time related.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
It can expire if it's food, if it's refrigerated, so
much things to have into consideration.
Speaker 4 (48:02):
But in addition to this, you know, something that I think.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
A lot of people may forget about is the piece
that this airport and others like this play in emergency
response and disaster relief. Let's talk a little bit about
what your capabilities are in supporting emergency response efforts and
(48:24):
disaster relief operations. And in addition to that, of course,
because we're coming up to the end of the program,
tell us what is on the horizon for Samdia International
Airport and mister.
Speaker 5 (48:36):
Michael Burrows, No, it's we are extremely well positioned to
support our first responders. We pride ourselves in our ability
to do that. So right across the ramp over there
is the USA for a Service Air Tanker base for
this region. As you know, that gets really busy during
wildfare season. This locks of air team supports them all
(48:59):
their fuel and support needs. We have the samy Ato
Regional Emergency Training Center which trains UH airport rescue and
firefighting crews from all over the world. They do an
amazing job there. And we are home to Samuel County
Sheriffs Aviations Aviation headquarters here, so with the largest accounting
(49:23):
in the contiguous US, you need your own aviation team
to be able to support that search and rescue operations,
medical volunteer forces, and you know, we're we're always open
for business. So even in some of the military partners
that have to come in on those large feel events,
know they've got a safe place in an open space
(49:45):
here at SVD That is remarkable.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
So what do you see in the future for sad
On International Airport the next five ten years?
Speaker 5 (49:54):
And you and Michael girls, Well, I'm so pleased with
how we've been able to grow and support all of
our business lines, and there's not one that's more important
than the other. We really appreciate every single one of them.
I do see on the horizon hopefully more activity in
the passenger arena. Like I said, we're always looking at
new city pair fits for the Breeze formula and hopefully
(50:20):
growing our international presence. So obviously having US customs based here,
we've supported them, they've supported us since nineteen ninety nine.
The Foreign Trade Zone program that we've had with our
Port of Long Beach partners since nineteen ninety six, really
looking at those unique opportunities to open an international trade
capability for our region because I do know being an
(50:44):
Export Council member, how much international trade this region has
supported support going forward, and I think we have a
big role to play in that.
Speaker 2 (50:57):
Stay tuned on that all So we will definitely stay
tuned on all of it.
Speaker 4 (51:01):
But unfortunately it's the end of the program.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
Thank you so much for being with us today, mister
Burroughs and Amber for your support and everybody at the airport.
It's a beautiful transformation and this team is a testament
to what can happen when innovation, collaboration and vision come together.
So I'm sorry everybody, but for everybody that wants to
find us, don't forget to find us on Facebook, YouTube, blankedon,
(51:26):
and Instagram. Check us out on scbrtalk dot com. Don't
miss my conversation with Leanne Logan, msn RN, who is
an accomplished Chief Nursing officer with over twenty five years
of experience in healthcare. She holds a Master of Science
in Nursing Healthcare Administration and a Bachelor of Science in
nursing from the University of Phoenix. Currently as the Chief
(51:47):
Nursing Officer at San Antono Regional Hospital in Upland, California,
Leanne oversees nursing operations and clinical services.
Speaker 4 (51:53):
Her responsibilities include strategic.
Speaker 2 (51:55):
Planning, ensuring quality patient care, and maintaining regulatory compliance. Next week,
we will have Chad Bianco, born in nineteen sixty seven
at Hill Air Force based and raised in a small
mining town, who embodies the values of integrity and perseverance
instilled by his hardworking parents. Revocating to California in nineteen
(52:16):
eighty nine, he joined the San Nantino Sheriff's Academy, excelling
and dedicating over three decades to law enforcement. Elected Sheriff
of Rudicide County in twenty eighteen, Bionco tackled budget crisis
and declining around rebuilding community trusts during a turbulent times
marked by civil unrest and a pandemic. A steadfast proponent
(52:38):
of public safety reform, he champions legislative changed, advocating for
Proposition thirty six, enhancing California's criminal justice system.
Speaker 4 (52:47):
You do not want to miss it. We will see
you all next week.
Speaker 12 (52:58):
Hi, Hi, my.
Speaker 5 (53:32):
W note book.
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There's nothing SA
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