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...most of them in California and in the ideally flat farm country around Chicago. But they have also sprung up in Florida, Arizona, Colorado, New York and even New Hampshire. All are operating at full tilt despite the ongoing air controllers' strike. Nineteen-year-old Cameron Airpark, 30 miles east of Sacramento, is an aeronautical paradise of clear skies and steady climate, with little fog or pollution. It consists of a 4,000-ft. paved runway surrounded by 120 half-acre lots that border on 100-ft.-wide, four-lane taxiway-roads with names like Lockheed Drive and Boeing...
...planes do tend to shape their owners' lifestyle, though. "When your husband asks you out to dinner," says Jan Carlsen, a resident of Cameron Airpark, "you don't have to go to the local Taco Bell; you can go to the Carson City Taco Bell." By plane it would be about a half-hour hop; by car, more than two hours, some of it over difficult mountain roads...
Food & Golf. At Dallas' Addison Airpark, six plants are operating, and lots for 45 others have been sold in the park's 75 acres. The park has a mile-long runway that can handle twin-engine jets, is home base for 309 planes. The 703-acre Skywest Park being developed at Hayward, Calif., includes an adjacent 18-hole golf course. Executives of the first company there, Mack Trucks, Inc., soon will be able to fly a visitor to their plant door, feed him in the planned 90-room hotel and restaurant, play a round of golf with...
...Such airpark sites are particularly attractive to manufacturers of light, high-value products (such as electronic components) that can be shipped by air, and to construction and research firms whose high-salaried officials must travel often. Many businessmen who locate in airparks pilot the planes themselves. Leroy Lott, a salesman for Bank Building & Equipment Corp., covers Texas and Oklahoma from Addison Airpark, says his Cessna's speed and convenience is about the equivalent of "another salesman working in my territory...
Taxiing Home. Smaller cities, bypassed by the transcontinental jets, see the airpark as a way to attract new light industry. La Crosse, Wis., is building a hundred-acre park next to its municipal airport, and Manchester, N.H., and Lincoln, R.I., both have set up nonprofit trusts to lease sites in their new airparks. Last week Atlanta Industrial Designer H. McKinley Conway Jr., who has planned several airparks, flew to Meridian, Miss., to confer with town officials who want to build one there. There is, of course, still the problem of commuting between home and work-but the Sierra Sky Park...
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