For months, Tampa International Airport CEO Joe Lopano has been making the rounds in front of various local government agencies, detailing the airport's ambitious 20-year master plan. After its approval from the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority on Thursday morning, the plan has officially begun.
The board approved 5-0 to begin phase one of the project, which is to immediately work on "decongesting" the airport.
Lopano began his presentation by giving the big picture: that the airport industry has now faced a "paradigm shift," and while it used to be about simply keeping the floors and bathrooms clean, now airport executives like himself have to be more entrepreneurial.
This article appears in Apr 4-10, 2013.