Routesonline have joined forces with the Global Airport Cities team to report to you live from the inaugural Aerotropolis Americas event, hosted by Dallas/ Fort Worth Airport.
Stay up to date with all the latest news on Twitter by following @airportcities, visiting http://www.globalairportcities.com.
We kicked off the event yesterday with Prof. John D Karsarda delivering a facinating masterclass on how the Aerotropolis model works. Take a look at some of the highlights here.
Session 1 - The Strategic Roadmap & Aerotropolis Masterplanning - Understanding & Implementing.
Session 2 - Creating Aerotropolis Stakeholder Collaboration
Session 3 - Creating Aerotropolis Benefits to Investors and Consituents
Session 4 - Aerotropolis Transportation: Accessibility, Accessibility, Accessibility!
Take a look at some of the highlights today's conference.
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For a greater understanding of the aerotropolis model, view this concept film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy3OSm1w-jY
The Aerotropolis Americas globe is passed to Denver International, who will host in 2014:
https://twitter.com/DFWAirport/status/396061856277614592
https://twitter.com/iain_parkinson/status/396039012596461568
https://twitter.com/ARNMagazine/status/396024834095726592
https://twitter.com/AirportCities/status/396871074442649600
"If you want to be an aerotropolis you have to develop to the private sector and aggressively market that", read the insights of developers already working in the aerotropolis:
http://www.globalairportcities.com/page.cfm/action=library/libID=1/libEntryID=1164/listID=14
Without money, there's no development - find out how those in the know have attracted investment to their aerotropoli in this round-up of the session:
http://www.globalairportcities.com/page.cfm/action=library/libID=1/libEntryID=1163/listID=18
The second session of the day is just out, read all about it here:
http://www.globalairportcities.com/page.cfm/action=library/libID=1/libEntryID=1162/listID=14
Find out all of the lessons from the first session of Day 2 of the conference here:
http://www.globalairportcities.com/page.cfm/action=library/libID=1/libEntryID=1161/listID=7
https://twitter.com/rboggus/status/395956189093048320
The final day of the conference begins, lots more to learn! Thanks to Ken Buchanan for an inspiring Key Note Speech
https://twitter.com/AirportCities/status/395914551512018944
https://twitter.com/AirportCities/status/395914965019684864
Night at the museum
https://twitter.com/matteoPHL/status/395706353508839424
https://twitter.com/AirportCities/status/395895364198232064
Delegates are preparing to attend the Perot Museum for the networking reception tonight. If you're not at Aerotropolis Americas, here's what you'll be missing:
Aerotropolis EMEA is announced! It will be held next July 2014 in Manchester, England.
https://twitter.com/iain_parkinson/status/395640973239144449
Session 5 - Facilitating growth through trade alliances and Free Trade Zones
Session 4 - Aerotropolis Transportation
https://twitter.com/MartyWieder/status/395663133844316161
https://twitter.com/jujusmith/status/395311927892516864
Session 3 - Communicating aerotropolis benefits
https://twitter.com/AirportCities/status/395603734245294080
https://twitter.com/AirportCities/status/395602535739715584
Session 2 - Creating aerotropolis stakeholder collaboration
https://twitter.com/tomvincent100/status/395581343624470528
https://twitter.com/MayorHancock/status/395583900090527744
Session 1 - The strategic roadmap
Jeffrey P. Fegan - "Believe it or not I retired on September 1st. But for one reason or other I keep coming back. This is my last official event"
https://twitter.com/VincentGollain/status/395546704033746944
https://twitter.com/ForrestinTX/status/395525232288493568
https://twitter.com/AirportCities/status/395517983390314496
Welcome Reception
https://twitter.com/AirportCities/status/395331880674807808
https://twitter.com/NikiMayYoung/status/395329400725463040
https://twitter.com/AirportCities/status/395328329521197056
Aerotropolis Masterclass
Read the highlights of the Aerotropolis Masterclass
A jam-packed masterclass outlining the key aerotropolis considerations was provided:
https://twitter.com/jujusmith/status/395311927892516864
https://twitter.com/jaredvanscoder/status/395284502412419072
https://twitter.com/AirportCities/status/395306908644417537
https://twitter.com/iain_parkinson/status/395315962150285312
The Delegates Bed In
https://twitter.com/matteoPHL/status/395261914831265792
https://twitter.com/AirportCities/status/395267303459151872
Aerotropolis Tour
Day one of the conference and exhibition begins with a tour of the DFW aerotropolis, taking delegates through a range of the airport's industrial, cargo and commercial zones interconnected with transport rail and road links.
https://twitter.com/AirportCities/status/395264820015923200
Some fast facts:
- 60,000 people work on DFW airport land
- DFW currently gets 65 percent of its revenue from non-aviation sources
- DFW has 7 runways
- There are 17,200 acres of land, 6,000 acres are available for development
- DFW crosses four city jurisdictions
- It is jointly owned by Dallas and Fort Worth and has an independent airport board
- 9 of the largest companies in the world have their headquarters at DFW
https://twitter.com/AirportCities/status/395263432645025792
All companies on DFW land rent their properties on long leases, typically 40 years.
Tenants include:
- UPS
- CEVA
- Verizon
- Prologis
- Caris
- NEC
- Aviall
https://twitter.com/VincentGollain/status/395244424407425024
Delegates on the tour outside Irving Convention Centre:
https://twitter.com/AirportCities/status/395240951519518720
The Build Up
The Global Airport Cities team landed safe and sound on Saturday and were fortunate enough to arrive during the annual Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering in Fort Worth, see the gallery here.
Command Central where the team are working hard to pull the event together:
https://twitter.com/AirportCities/status/394877117172703232
Staff and attendees alike are looking forward to the inaugural event:
https://twitter.com/HubstartParis/status/394509730497847297
https://twitter.com/iain_parkinson/status/394878775982161920
https://twitter.com/CarolynBurnett1/status/393736777057308672
http://twitter.com/DecRoutes/status/394030109751275520
https://twitter.com/DFWAirport/status/394169133324963840
https://twitter.com/AmieePopperwell/status/392229073495146496
https://twitter.com/officialholliet/status/392729664755470336
https://twitter.com/NikiMayYoung/status/390410861434507265
With one week to go, the build-up begins with a recognition for Aerotropolis founder Professor John D. Kasarda:
https://twitter.com/routesonline/status/390871964627128320
News of the inaugural Aerotropolis Americas event starts to spread:
- http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/2013/10/why-dfw-airport-is-perfect-host-for.html
- http://www.routesonline.com/news/29/breaking-news/218648/dfw-invites-the-airport-development-and-real-estate-industries-to-the-inaugural-aerotropolis-americas/
- http://www.ntc-dfw.org/news/newsletter/october2013.html
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