Westchester Business Journal: 061719

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JUNE 17, 2019 VOL. 55, No. 24

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One of the Gulfstream corporate jets on display at Westchester County Airport. Photo by Peter Katz.

Multimillion-dollar aircraft featured as thousands attend Westchester County Airport event

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BY PETER KATZ

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BUILDING’S ART GALLERY

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AERIAL VIEW WITH SOLAR PANELS

he importance of Westchester County Airport to the area’s business community was highlighted on June 6 when the National Business Aviation Association held a regional forum there. The NBAA has about 11,000 corporate members and is a major nationwide force in promoting business aviation and lobbying to

protect the industry. One of the airport’s runways was closed for an exhibit of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the latest corporate aircraft that had been flown in for the event. The new hangar at fixed base operator Million Air was turned into an exhibition hall where the latest aviation technology was on display and education sessions were held. Airport operations continued despite the presence of several thousand visitors and hundreds

of cars parked on an area of the grass between the runways and taxiways, with airport personnel and Westchester County Police handling security. In a welcoming speech, Peter Scherrer, manager of the airport, said there are 1,900 people employed there. “Most of them are full-time jobs,” he said. “They rely on business aviation, because business aviation at this airport is a lion’s share of my revenue.” He » AIRCRAFTS

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STEINER SPORTS MEMORABILIA FILES CLOSING NOTICE; SALE REPORTED BY PETER KATZ pkatz@westfairinc.com STEINER SPORTS MEMORABILIA INC., WHICH GREW from a one-man startup in 1987 to become a powerhouse in the sports collectibles field, has filed a plant closing notice with the New York State Department of Labor. Its closing date is Oct. 29 and all 60 of its employees will be affected. Steiner is headquartered at 145 Huguenot St. in New Rochelle and has additional locations in

Brooklyn, Garden City and Manhattan. The closing notice coincides with reports that many of Steiner Sports’ assets have been acquired by Fanatics Inc., a global sports merchandise operator. The reports say that Steiner Sports employees were notified about the sale to Fanatics during the weekend of June 1. Fanatics is based in Jacksonville, Florida, and sells sports merchandise directly to fans online as well as » STEINER

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