TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Coming to Tampa International Airport by the end of the decade is Airside D, the airport\u2019s newest terminal that is currently under construction.<\/p>\n
Laurie Noyes, Airport Concessions and Commercial Parking Vice President, says it\u2019s going to be double the size of the terminal next door.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have 66 shops and restaurants. We are opening (Airside D), but we\u2019re also looking at the expiration of all of our contracts and what we\u2019re going to be doing in the future,\u201d Noyes said.<\/p>\n
What she sees in the future terminal is local businesses taking over the storefronts.<\/p>\n
For franchise owner Ian Lieberman, he and his siblings run several locations of Dave\u2019s Hot Chicken across the west coast of Florida. Their goal, to open their newest location inside Airside D.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen the growth here. And it\u2019s exciting to be a part of a community institution, like the airport,\u201d Lieberman. \u201cIt\u2019s really an honor to even be considered for a space there. And we think if we are selected for a space, that it will do nothing but great things for our brand and for our business.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even for a franchise, breaking into the Tampa market comes with its own set of challenges.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first site was really challenging to find. The second site was challenging, but a little easier, and now that we have a successful track record, landlords, we can tell landlords what we\u2019re doing in sales,\u201d said Lieberman.<\/p>\n
Although he\u2019s never owned a restaurant inside an airport, he\u2019s excited to be considered for Airside D.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re surrounded by national vendors and prime contractors from all over the country. But here, this feels a lot more local. And to me, that\u2019s what the Tampa airport is about,\u201d Lieberman mentioned.<\/p>\n
Noyes added that the payoffs for these partnerships are not just in dollar signs.<\/p>\n
\u201cGenerally they use local supply chain \u2014 they use local agriculture. And so we\u2019re continuing to generate that economic activity within our region. Obviously, employees are locally based. And so it\u2019s important to have that brand,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Coming to Tampa International Airport by the end of the decade is Airside D, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11687,2031,558,90888,276,115,135,137,136,14104],"class_list":["post-337930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-air-travel","tag-app-local-business","tag-business","tag-claire-alfree","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-topic-latest-local-business-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}