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Greensboro Considering $2.5 Million For PTI

(Photo credit: Julie Knight, Triad Business Journal)

Piedmont Triad International Airport may get a financial boost from the City of Greensboro. A city council committee discussed the funding at its meeting on Tuesday.

The council is considering investing $2.5 million in development and site readiness at PTI.

It passed a resolution in March authorizing the money, contingent on other local and regional governments pitching in. So far, no additional financial commitments have been made.

The News & Record of Greensboro reports representatives from PTI made a presentation at Tuesday's meeting. They pointed to the expected completion of adjacent areas of Interstate 73 as a prime opportunity for expansion. They also detailed the economic impact of the airport.

The city council now seems poised to invest the money without other government partners on board.

Approval will be up for discussion at the next council meeting on Tuesday.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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