Restaurant Space

Reviewing our recommendations from our web page, I came across one of our recommendations:

8 Explore new revenue sources including but not limited to the available restaurant slot and lands remaining idle in the Airport Industrial Park.

Instead of looking to the parking fees for revenues lets concentrate on these ideas for additonal revenues. What ever happened to the plans to rent out the restaurant slot?? A coffee joint with free internet access would be winner?? Seriously think about passengers coming to Worcester in December and January for the first Allegiant flights, don't you think the flying public will assume that they will be able to buy a cup of coffee and donut at ORH?

In addition when has anyone reviewed the terms in the current leases at the airport industrial park?? Maybe some can be renegotiated? Maybe some of have violated the terms of their original leases?? Who knows, but does anybody check them??? What about the extra empty parcels of land in the Airport Industrial Park??

Belive me I am all for looking for more revenues to reduce the operating deficit. Parking in the short-term will yield few dollars, when one considers the additional operating costs, but more importantly hurt the image that we are trying to project and actually end up costing us money. We need to have free parking along with carriers like Allegiant, proper signage to and from the airport and free WiFi to get the passengers back to ORH. Oh yeah, and coffee.

The day we have multiple airlines flying out of ORH and the lots are nearing capacity is the day we start to charge for parking.