Skift Take
This is manna from heaven for tech blogs, if they want to milk this.
If all goes according to plan, it won’t be long before Google lands its winged fleet at Mineta San Jose International Airport at a brand new general aviation facility that will bring in millions of dollars.
In a memo released Thursday, San Jose airport officials urged the city to approve a deal with Signature Aviation and Blue City Holdings — the company representing the Google fleet — that would result in a privately funded 29-acre, $82 million facility on land that was formerly a parking lot on the west side of the airfield.
“It’s a huge deal for the airport,” said Aviation Director Bill Sherry Thursday night of the proposal that must still be signed off by the San Jose City Council this spring.
“We’ve been dealing for years (at the airport) with the economic downturn and layoffs and increased debt, and now suddently
