Memphis to host Airport Cities event
Memphis, March 16, 2011 – Leading senior airport decision makers, key partners, real estate developers, investment companies and economic development agencies will gather in Memphis on April 11 for a truly unique two day conference exploring the new business model US airports are striving towards – the evolving airport city and Aerotropolis urban forms.
Taking place in Memphis, the home of FedEx and America’s biggest cargo hub, the Airport Cities event will explore critical issues in the creation of a successful airport city or Aerotropolis, such as how airports can maximise nonaeronautical revenues, develop integrated cargo and logistics supply chains, develop in an environmentally friendly manner and maximise their commercial real estate potential.
The event will be opened by Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen, author of the Aerotropolis Act, and will include keynote speakers in the airport city ‘community’, including Fred Smith, president and CEO of FedEx, Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta Air Lines, Larry Cox, president and CEO of Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority, Kim Day, manager of aviation at Denver International Airport and Rosemarie Andolino, commissioner, department of aviation at the City of Chicago.
“Airports in the 21st century are experiencing a new and distinct evolutionary stage - the ‘airport city,’ says Professor John D. Kasarda, director of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, conference chairman and the man who coined the phrase Aerotropolis.
“What started out in the 1990s with a handful of international air gateways notching up their duty-free and traditional terminal retail has become a worldwide phenomenon of commercial expansion and airports across the US are assuming roles few before anticipated,” he adds.
Taking place in The Peabody Memphis Hotel between April 11 to 13, Airport Cities will bring together experts from the public and private sectors to discuss how airports can become multi-modal freight and passenger hubs with road, rail and water connections, the master planning, designing and construction of airport cities and how to attract companies and investment.
Taking place in Memphis, the home of FedEx and America’s biggest cargo hub, the Airport Cities event will explore critical issues in the creation of a successful airport city or Aerotropolis, such as how airports can maximise nonaeronautical revenues, develop integrated cargo and logistics supply chains, develop in an environmentally friendly manner and maximise their commercial real estate potential.
The event will be opened by Tennessee Congressman Steve Cohen, author of the Aerotropolis Act, and will include keynote speakers in the airport city ‘community’, including Fred Smith, president and CEO of FedEx, Richard Anderson, CEO of Delta Air Lines, Larry Cox, president and CEO of Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority, Kim Day, manager of aviation at Denver International Airport and Rosemarie Andolino, commissioner, department of aviation at the City of Chicago.
“Airports in the 21st century are experiencing a new and distinct evolutionary stage - the ‘airport city,’ says Professor John D. Kasarda, director of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, conference chairman and the man who coined the phrase Aerotropolis.
“What started out in the 1990s with a handful of international air gateways notching up their duty-free and traditional terminal retail has become a worldwide phenomenon of commercial expansion and airports across the US are assuming roles few before anticipated,” he adds.
Taking place in The Peabody Memphis Hotel between April 11 to 13, Airport Cities will bring together experts from the public and private sectors to discuss how airports can become multi-modal freight and passenger hubs with road, rail and water connections, the master planning, designing and construction of airport cities and how to attract companies and investment.