Kissimmee gets $2 million from state for Airport

After failing to escape the governor’s veto pen over a number of years, the Kissimmee Gateway Airport received $2 million this year from the $69.1 billion state budget to allow an aviation business park project to take flight and help create jobs, the Osceola News-Gazette reports. The design, which was completed in 2001, calls for a 12-acre park with about 10 parcels of land on which about eight aviation-related businesses could build. Some examples, according to Airport Director Terry Lloyd, could be aviation maintenance shops, manufacturers of aviation components or specialized flight training, such as a jet training school.Lloyd said the airport had been waiting since about 2003 for the appropriation.