Mr. Mike Willingham

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  Mike Willingham Exec. Dir. 655-6444 Ext.103

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  Mike Willingham, the airport's executive director, said it provides an opportunity to bring "world-class education and training" to those who would not otherwise be exposed to.

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  "It's pretty much a non-event," said Mike Willingham, executive director of the Sebring Airport Authority.

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  Published on: 4/30/2008    Last Visited: 4/30/2008  

  "The whole corridor needs to be master-planned," said Mike Willingham, executive director of the Sebring Airport Authority, one of the lead organizers."It's absolutely essential.
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  "It's a very important aspect of our community growing," said Willingham, whose airport is looking to more than double its size and add commercial passenger service."We're not only an airport, but a platform for economic development for the entire community."
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  Willingham said two more meetings, one in Sebring and the other in Port St. Lucie, are planned to gauge support for forming the coalition.

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  Published on: 3/12/2007    Last Visited: 3/12/2007  

  Mike Willingham, executive director of the Sebring Airport Authority, said the Florida Department of Transportation needs a new methodology for the 21st century.
  
  "You can't think in terms of traffic counts," said Willingham, who is also an economic developer.
  
  The cost analysis - in year 2007 dollars - assumes right of way acquisitions of $352 million.Instead, the state could trade land donations for the right of the donors to commercially develop the land along the highway rights of way and interchanges, Willingham said.
  
  If the turnpike authority doesn't acquire the land now, Willingham said, it will have lost the ability to plan the future.
  
  "We have to protect the ribbon of real estate to lay this asphalt on," Willingham said."We have the opportunity right now to negotiate environmental easements."
  
  At the same time, said Willingham, easements for high-speed rail and pipelines like natural gas can be fixed.

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  Published on: 9/1/2006    Last Visited: 5/18/2007  

  Sebring Regional has an economic impact of well over $200 million annually and a payroll of $12 million, says Mike Willingham, executive director of the Sebring Airport Authority.The airport was named in the State Aviation System Plan as the growth airport for south central Florida.
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  "It is the most modern manufacturing facility in the region," says Willingham.

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  In the fall of 2004, armed with deHaven-Smith's report and a catchy enthusiasm for Highlands County's future, a visionary former banker named Mike Willingham brought the story of the heartland to Florida's Turnpike Enterprise.Willingham, longtime executive director of the Sebring Airport Authority, found a sympathetic ear in Turnpike Executive Director James Ely, who said his agency would be willing to investigate an east-west toll road.
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  Supporters of the highways say their essential concern is to get growth right this time: To plan major highway corridors and other infrastructure so that "when you pour the growth in, it's in an orderly fashion rather than splashing everywhere," says Willingham of the Sebring Airport Authority.
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  Mike Willingham, executive director of the Sebring Airport Authority, and Manatee County Commissioner Joe McClash lobbied for key points in the east-west road plan.

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  It would bring growth and development to Florida's heartland," said the airport's executive director, Mike Willingham."Eighty percent of the state population lives within a 100-mile radius, but we are not connected through transportation infrastructure to that population.Connecting the two major generators to the center part of the state is critical."
  
  Resolutions of support have been received from almost all of the municipalities in the Highlands region, Willingham said.
  
  "The overwhelming majority is in favor.The project seems to be taking a life of its own," he said."As the east coast and west coast congestion continue to be a problem this project makes even more sense."
  
  No opposition has surfaced so far, he said.

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  Published on: 3/8/2007    Last Visited: 3/8/2007  

  Mike Willingham, executive director of the Sebring Airport Authority, was sitting in James Ely's office on Friday when the executive director of Florida's Turnpike Enterprise released the Future Corridors study.
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  "It was not a surprise," said Willingham."And I don't think anybody is disappointed.We've done a lot of work, and this is a long-term project."
  
  The road must be built, not just with toll revenues, but with private sector donations from landowners in exchange for development rights, Willingham said.
  
  But the time to begin is today, not in five or 10 years when the need is critical, said Willingham.Future Corridors seeks to remake rural parts of the state with new toll roads that would accommodate future growth.
  
  Willingham disagreed with a statement by Crist on Monday.
  
  Crist said the state needs to "prioritize and have roads where the people are and where we need them.Right now, that's South Florida, southeast Florida ...I want us to expand I-75 south, I-95 south down to Miami and then I-4."
  
  That sort of reactive planning doesn't work, Willingham said.State leaders must learn to be proactive, and build roads before they're needed, before the needed rights of way disappear.
  
  "We have to protect the ribbon of real estate to lay this asphalt on," Willingham said.

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  Published on: 1/1/2005    Last Visited: 9/24/2007  

  Mike Willingham, executive director of the Sebring Airport and Commerce Park, outlined the Authority's commitment, "First and foremost, our park is a catalyst for industrial development, and secondarily, we are an airport.We consider our tenants as business partners and try to iron out the red tape instead of adding impediments to their businesses.We are an entrepreneurial public body that understands that time is money."
  
  "In E-Stone's case," Willingham elaborated, "we basically facilitated the project by making the land acquisition quick and affordable, and assisted them with their permitting process.

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