GAME CHANGER: With an address of 747 Air Terminal Parkway, it’s a given that the new Hyatt Place at Melbourne Orlando International Airport is ready to soar. The Hyatt Place Melbourne Airport is the first hybrid concept hotel in the United States, serving both commercial airline travelers and private aviation customers. The hotel is central to major government contractors offering private terminals for business and luxury aviation. “The fact is that you have a hotel they can fly-in,” said David Mendal, above inset, co-founder and board member of real estate development group Twenty8, which partnered with ADELON Capital to make the hotel a reality.
As a long-promised fuel farm nears completion at the Morrisville-Stowe Airport, the state-owned facility remains without an operator over a year after the departure of Stowe Aviation.
The Vermont Agency of Transportation is back at the drawing board after a long-promised effort to find a replacement operator at the Morrisville-Stowe airport fizzled out.