Erlanger, Ky. (October 18, 2021) – The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) is reopening runway 9/27 after rehabilitation work, which included new asphalt, concrete and lighting updates. Runway 9/27 is the airport’s longest and most utilized runway which directionally runs east/west. The overall project represents a $69 million investment in airfield infrastructure. Subsequent closure of the runway for major rehabilitation began in March of this year and is now complete. The project also includes work on adjacent taxiways that will continue into 2022, but aircraft operations will be returning to usual patterns (prior to March 2021) over the next few weeks. Planning and design of this critical infrastructure project began in early 2019 and construction activities started in the fall of 2020. The project page can be found here for more information. To minimize impacts on operations and surrounding communities, CVG worked with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and cargo partners to compress the project schedule impacting the runway to one year (six to seven-month closure timeframe) versus the typical two years it would take for a project of this size.“We are grateful that the phase of the project involving runway closure is complete as this infrastructure benefits the airport and all of our airline partners,” said Candace McGraw, chief executive officer, CVG. “This project will position CVG well for pandemic recovery and future growth.”About CVG AirportCVG Airport welcomed more than 9.1 million passengers in 2019, serving a record number of local passengers. As the airport recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, it still offers the most nonstop destinations and the lowest average airfares in the region. CVG is diversified in both passenger and cargo operations with an annual economic impact of $6.8 billion. It is the 7th largest cargo airport in North America – home to Amazon Air’s primary U.S. Hub and DHL Express Global Superhub. Learn more at CVGairport.com.

Cincinnati Enquirer / Alexander Coolidge / October 13, 2021When Candace McGraw first landed at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 2009, the region’s dominant hub was in freefall.Reviled for sky-high airfares that were among the highest in the nation, the airport’s traffic was plummeting after the merger of Delta and Northwest airlines as the newly combined carrier swiftly de-hubbed CVG.It was also the depths of the Great Recession, which slowed economic activity and sacked demand for business travel.“When I arrived at CVG in late 2009, we had a great team and a tremendous can-do spirit,” McGraw recalled. “We just needed direction on how to stem the decline the airport was in and to leverage our strengths.”First serving as chief administrative officer, then promoted to CEO of the airport in 2011, McGraw sought to move on from CVG’s historic reliance on one dominant carrier and pushed hard to court low-cost carriers that previously avoided the airport.[FULL STORY HERE](https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/local/womenoftheyear/2021/10/14/candace-mcgraw-ceo-cvg-helps-region-soar-women-year/6018054001/)

Air Cargo Week / James Graham / September 27, 2021[Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport](https://www.cvgairport.com/)’s (CVG) is undergoing a cargo make over, putting it on track to become the 6th largest cargo airport in North America.The airport’s strategic focus to leverage its location and hundreds of acres of available land, create efficiencies for the air cargo supply chain, and support air cargo partners is paying off with more than five years of record-breaking cargo growth (2016, 2017, 2018 2019 and 2020). CVG is also home to global air cargo hubs, DHL and Amazon Air.In five years CVG will be the epicenter of e-Commerce says Candace McGraw, CEO, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. “We will be a catalyst for even greater economic impact on our local economy with the development of Hangar Row. Through this, we will continue to grow and diversify our air cargo operations and passenger carriers. We plan to leverage aircraft maintenance and support services on and around our airport campus. We will also implement a regional aviation development plan.”Big stakeholdersThe airport’s central US location, its land available for development (the airport property totals 7,700 acres), ample airfield and airspace capacity and four runways, teamed with the agile, business-minded decision making of management, make CVG an attractive location for big stakeholders to take up residence.Amazon Air’s global cargo hub is currently under development and will open this year. Amazon’s cargo operations have been in full swing since May 2017 and the carrier is a big force in the overall growth of the Airport.DHL Express has also seen significant growth since it established one of its three global super hubs at CVG in 2013. The company set up home at CVG in 2009 and has made three major expansions investing $380 million and employing 4,600.Atlas Air and its subsidiaries are major contractors for DHL and Amazon. The company recently established a new 100 sq ft, $34 million operations centre adjacent to CVG’s campus to support existing business and future growth.Adding to this, an aircraft maintenance hangar developed by Lynxs for FEAM Aero opened in 2020 to service wide-body aircraft.All of this cargo activity is taking place on the south end of CVG’s campus, McGraw reports, but she notes general cargo activity is seeing an increase as well. A new general use cargo facility was built by Aeroterm in 2019 on the north end of the campus with FedEx as the anchor tenant.Transformational impact“CVG’s cargo growth is having a transformational impact on the Cincinnati region. We know there is an immediate economic impact from the expansion projects themselves, $360M by DHL since 2009 and $1.5B in progress from Amazon,” explains McGraw.“DHL and Amazon alone have hired several thousand additional employees over the last two years. We have also experienced growth on our campus with MRO operations, both construction and employment. Off campus, a number of companies have relocated to our region because of CVG’s cargo growth. Chief of those is Atlas Air who constructed and staffed a $34 million operations centre near the airport.”“We have instituted several workforce strategies including the launch of a Strategic Workforce Collaborative in 2018, which convenes airport-wide employers to share best practices and work together to provide meaningful career opportunities. A job portal was created to aggregate job openings from around campus into one online site. In partnership with the Kentucky Career Centre we opened a CVG Career Centre in our passenger Terminal for job seeker convenience,” she continues.“CVG has taken a leadership role in engaging education partners to develop a pipeline of students who are interested in a career in aviation. One programme allows juniors and seniors to take dual-credit classes in logistics management as well as encounter work-based learning experiences. Many of our cargo partners are hiring these students for full-time positions upon graduation of the programme.”Immense importanceAs it has globally, air cargo has been of utmost importance in the US throughout the pandemic.“Cargo has been immensely important to us in our bottom line throughout the pandemic. It literally helped us keep our lights on. Because we have diversified our operations throughout the last ten years, we have been able to weather the storm,” McGraw says.“During the early parts of the pandemic, cargo landed weight was around 75% while landed weight from passenger operations were at 25%. Prior to the pandemic in 2019, we saw 55% cargo and 45% passenger. For the balance of 2021, we are forecasting 65% cargo and 35% passenger.”“The toughest challenge continues to be uncertainty about the depth and duration of the pandemic. After initially losing 95% of passengers and associated revenues in March 2020, through the return of the summer leisure traveler in 2021, to the rise in variants, we have had to be acutely aware of health and safety concerns, while being operationally agile and fiscally prudent.“Changing consumer behaviours, including touchless ordering in concessions and the rise and impact of e-Commerce, create additional demands and further workforce challenges.“We have learned it is important to diversify your business model as much as possible.”[FULL STORY HERE](https://www.aircargoweek.com/cvg-ready-for-take-off/)

91.7 WVXU Cincinnati Public Radio / Ann Thompson / October 12, 2021The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport's new $175 million rental car center opens Oct. 20.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Picking up a rental car at the Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport just got a lot easier. All eleven companies are just steps away from the baggage claim and their cars are right outside. No shuttles.In the airline industry this configuration is known as a CONRAC-consolidated rental car center. “The rental car companies are over the moon happy to have this connected walkable solution," CVG CEO Candace McGraw says. "It’s very unique. I don’t know how many are out, there but very few.”Customers check in at the counter and then take an elevator to their car, all in a building that’s on the site of the old terminals 1 and 2.There are two new rental car companies at CVG: Sixt and Zipcar.Ground transportation is also differentThere are also changes for ground transportation. Down a ramp, travelers can take a bus to ValuPark, the Economy Lot and catch a shuttle to off-airport sites and hotels. By the beginning of next year, McGraw says the airport will be back to full parking options.On the other side of baggage claim will be rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft.The airport will pay for this $175 million, 9.2-acre facility and 2,710 parking spaces with a car rental tax.While you wait, there is cool art to look atCVG and Artworks commissioned geometric abstractionist [Adrienne Gaither](http://www.adriennegaither.com/) to design the art above the rental car counter.Gaither is from Cincinnati and now lives in Washington, D.C. She says travel can be stressful. “So, I wanted it to be meditative and also just bright in case you have to wait. You know, something you can just get lost in.”Another mural on a different floor of the five-story building is underway. It’s designed by Northern Kentuckian [Christian Dallas](https://www.christiandallas.com/about).The rental car facility opens Oct. 20.[FULL STORY WITH PICTURE AND AUDIO HERE](https://www.wvxu.org/local-news/2021-10-12/11-rental-car-companies-cvg)

Cincinnati Business Courier / Chris Wetterich / October 12, 2021Decades ago, thousands of people flew out of Terminals 1 and 2 at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in its former life as a Delta Air Lines hub.Now, those facilities have been demolished and replaced by a massive, five-story, $175 million consolidated rental car facility that will allow passengers to walk from the terminal to their rental car without taking a bus. The facility will open to customers on Oct. 20.“It’s hugely important for the airport for a couple of reasons,” said CVG CEO [Candace McGraw](https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/search/results?q=Candace%20McGraw). “It provides a new front-door entry into the airport. It provides a connected, walkable solution for all of the rental car companies. Not only did we change the roadway infrastructure, we built this ground transportation center that will take all of our commercial traffic off the roadways. That will ease roadway congestion coming in.”The facility also has room for an expanded ticketing area to ease congestion in the existing check-in area. Existing airlines could move there and/or new airlines could come in. CVG hopes to add more airlines and nonstop flights.“It gives us a lot of space for future growth,” McGraw said. “We didn’t build it to be an empty space.”CVG has a $6.8 billion economic impact on the region.“We’ve positioned this airport to be the economic engine of this community,” said CVG’s board chair, [J. Michael Schlotman](https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/search/results?q=J.%20Michael%20Schlotman).The airport also is moving the shuttles to its economy and value parking lots and hotels to west side of the facility.CVG also has added a new rental car company, Sixt, which rents luxury cars, as well as the standard fare offered by Alamo, National, Enterprise, Avis, Budget, Payless, Dollar, Thrifty and Hertz. The companies will be able to clean and refuel their vehicles onsite at the facility. Zipcar, whose customers check out cars via an app without any counters, also will have a presence at the airport.The facility features murals spearheaded by ArtWorks, including by local artists [Adrienne Gaither](https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/search/results?q=Adrienne%20Gaither) and [Christian Dallas](https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/search/results?q=Christian%20Dallas).“We gave each artist the same brief. We wanted to talk about connectivity and travel and our region,” McGraw said.The project’s funding sources include customer facility fees paid by rental car customers, McGraw said. The roadways were paid for in part by passenger facility fees paid for by passengers as well as some general airport revenue bonds CVG sold. Such dollars must be spent within the airport’s footprint, under federal law, so that money cannot be used to fund the operations for additional transit service.Customers can walk directly from the baggage claim to the rental car counters. From there, they can take an elevator or stairs to the level where their rental car is located.How CVG will use the existing parking lots where the rental cars had been located is to be determined, but it’s likely to be utilized for aviation purposes perhaps related to cargo, including freight forwarders, McGraw said.[FULL STORY HERE](https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2021/10/12/cvg-unveils-new-175-million-facility.html)

WKRC-TV 12 / via Cincinnati Business Courier / October 12, 2021CINCINNATI ([Cincinnati Business Courier](https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2021/10/12/cvg-unveils-new-175-million-facility.html "https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2021/10/12/cvg-unveils-new-175-million-facility.html")) - Decades ago, thousands of people flew out of Terminals 1 and 2 at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in its former life as a Delta Air Lines hub.Now, those facilities have been demolished and replaced by a massive, five-story, $175 million consolidated rental car facility that will allow passengers to walk from the terminal to their rental car without taking a bus. The facility will open to customers on Oct. 20.The facility also has room for an expanded ticketing area to ease congestion in the existing check-in area. Existing airlines could move there and/or new airlines could come in.[STORY WITH PICTURE HERE](https://local12.com/news/local/cvg-unveils-massive-175-million-car-rental-facility-covington-cincinnati-international-airport-vehicle-business-courier)

MarketWatch / Jon Swartz/ October 5, 2021Hebron, Ky., is a peculiar spot as ground zero for the technology sector’s latest push in America’s heartland, but Amazon Air, the e-commerce giant’s 5-year-old cargo airline, is operating a 800,000-square-foot sorting center here.The [$1.5 billion air hub](https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-air-launches-state-art-air-cargo-hub-northern-kentucky), occupying 600 acres along the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport’s (CVG) southern boundary, will eventually handle enough goods to fill 75 to 100 flights a day within a few years, Brian Cobb, chief innovation officer at CVG, says. Amazon said it doesn’t discuss future plans, only that the facility will create more than 2,000 jobs and operate 12 daily flights by the end of this year.“This hub is going to let us to get packages to customers faster,” Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said during the groundbreaking ceremony at CVG in May 2019. “That’s a big deal.”“The airport is one of the best startup labs in the country,” Pete Blackshaw, chief executive of Cintrifuse, a startup and entrepreneur organization, told MarketWatch. “It is redefining \[Cincinnati\] as a great supply way.”In addition to a sweetheart tax deal with local officials, Amazon was drawn to Hebron because of available land and a fast-modernizing airport. CVG deploys autonomous vehicles to move luggage; the fleet is managed via a 5G network. Sensors manage bathroom cleanliness and a tram system that shuttles passengers between terminals and baggage claim. “We are trying to build a micro-smart city here,” Cobb said.Some 100 miles northeast, in New Albany, Ohio, data centers have sprouted smack dab in the middle of the state for Amazon, Facebook Inc. [FB, 0.57%](https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/FB?mod=MW_story_quote), and Google parent Alphabet Inc. [GOOGL, 0.21%](https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/GOOGL?mod=MW_story_quote) [GOOG, 0.28%](https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/GOOG?mod=MW_story_quote). The area is a [core hub for the physical infrastructure of the internet](https://news.wisc.edu/internet-atlas-maps-the-physical-internet-to-enhance-security/) that billions of people rely on.Google, which operates a $600 million data center in New Albany, said it plans to invest another $1 billion in the area. The company will also buy more than 600 acres in Columbus and Lancaster as potential future data center sites. Google benefited from [$54 million in tax breaks from the Columbus City Council](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-nets-54-million-in-tax-breaks-for-columbus-ohio-data-center/#:~:text=Construction%20%26%20Site%20Selection-,Google%20nets%20%2454%20million%20in,for%20Columbus%2C%20Ohio%2C%20data%20center&text=The%20Columbus%20City%20Council%20has,expected%2020%20full%2Dtime%20jobs.) to build the data center, which will bring 20 jobs.The growing appeal of small town, USA, particularly in Ohio, for tech giants comes down to a mantra in real estate: Location, location, location. About 60% of North America’s population is within 500 miles of Cincinnati; CSX Corp. [CSX, 1.15%](https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/CSX?mod=MW_story_quote) operates one of the largest rail yards in the U.S. in the Queen City; and the EPA’ second-largest research facility is in Cincinnati.“Cincinnati is close to everything. It is a physical distribution hub by air, highway, river, and rail,” says Mike Venerable, chief executive of CincyTech, which has a portfolio of more than 30 startups across the digital and healthcare industries.Equally important, a business-friendly climate is luring Big Tech with regulation-free legislation and tax incentives. The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority in early 2017 [awarded $40 million in tax incentives for Amazon’s CVG project](https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/01/31/kentucky-oks-40m-incentive-for-amazon-hub-at-cvg.html) contingent on Amazon creating at least 600 new jobs in Boone County. Plenty of space became available for Amazon after Delta Air Lines Inc. [DAL, \-0.84%](https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/DAL?mod=MW_story_quote) dropped CVG as a hub for Detroit.“Ohio is working hard to be very business friendly” with bills that minimize regulation, John Navin, an economics professor at Ohio Northern University, told MarketWatch. The Republican-dominated state legislature, for example, has pushed bills that give businesses wide latitude with COVID/vaccination/mask rules to make it easier to run and operate.A modest but thriving tech communityTo be sure, the tech scene in Ohio — while growing — is about the size of a large Silicon Valley employer. Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus have approximately 125,000 high-tech workers, compared to the 373,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area, according to [employment research by region](https://spanning.com/resources/industry-research/cities-with-most-technology-jobs-per-capita/). Indeed, in it’s “Tech Talent Scorecard Ranking” of the top 50 U.S. markets, CBRE places Columbus at No. 31, Cincinnati at No. 42, and Cleveland at No. 44. By comparison, Salt Lake City is No. 18 and Milwaukee is No. 49.Migration patterns based on frequently updated U.S. Postal Service data do show an exodus from dense, high-cost urban metro areas such as the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and Seattle in 2020, but the outflow was modest in most cases, according to a [CBRE analysis](https://www.cbre.us/research-and-reports/COVID-19-Impact-on-Resident-Migration-Patterns) in April.Cincinnati has leveraged its location and business-friendly environment to compete with other regions such as Indianapolis, Nashville, and Austin, Texas.“We are about a decade behind \[Pittsburgh\] in tech, but we have a more diverse economy,” says Venerable, pointing to the corporate headquarters of Procter & Gamble Co. [PG, \-0.57%](https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/PG?mod=MW_story_quote) and Kroger Co. [KR, \-0.11%](https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/KR?mod=MW_story_quote) in Cincinnati, as well as the prevalence of insurance companies, banks, supply chain companies, manufacturing facilities, health care firms, and digital media startups.“Major companies are at a tipping point of redefining themselves” through technology, says Blackshaw. “There is a symbiotic need between their needs and our startup stable that could change everything.”Two local examples underscore the marriage of Fortune 500 companies and startups: Medical wearable device maker Enable Injections Inc., which has developed a yo-yo-sized gadget to ease the injection of drugs through a tiny needle, and 80 Acres Farms, an environmentally-friendly producer of lettuce that is grown and harvested indoors with no soil, minimal water, and under pink-purple lamps.Enable’s enFuse device, which can be affixed to the patient’s body and dispenses medication while the subject goes about their tasks, could be a breakthrough in a potential $1.2 trillion market by 2030. It plans to ramp up production of the device into the millions in a few years. Among its commercial partners are Genentech, a subsidiary of Roche Holding [ROG, +1.19%](https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ROG?countryCode=CH&mod=MW_story_quote), and Eli Lilly & Co. [LLY, 0.65%](https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/LLY?mod=MW_story_quote). Enable has partnered with [Flex](https://flex.com/) to mass-manufacture its product.High-tech plant factory 80 Acres Farms, whose goods are sold through Amazon’s Whole Foods Market Inc. and Kroger, is not just changing the way plants are grown but also streamlining the convoluted system of food production, pricing, and distribution in the U.S., according to Mike Zelkind, a former food company executive who is 80 Acres Farms CEO. Most important, it has eliminated so-called food miles in transporting produce by truck and rail across the country.Midwest migrationWhat’s happening in Cincinnati is occurring in other cities of the heartland, an upshot of being near major intersections for transportation hubs and internet infrastructure; a realization by older, more established companies based in the Midwest that they must partner with high-tech startups to innovate; and a consequence of the pandemic and its profound impact on work locations.Untethered by the need to work out of an office, pandemic-era employees have been liberated to work from anywhere, creating distributed workforces.“You can now work for the best job, and live for the best life,” says Phil Libin, CEO of All Turtles, an artificial intelligence startup studio. In December, he decamped San Francisco for Bentonville, Ark.“I just wanted to get out of San Francisco. It had become pretty unpleasant: Forest fires, crime, the whole vibe,” says Libin, the founder of app maker Evernote Corp. “Once I could work from anywhere, the risk-reward just wasn’t worth it.”Libin didn’t intend to stay long in Arkansas. The plan was to stay a few months, then go to Boulder, Salt Lake City, and Japan. But he is sticking in the town where Walmart Inc. [WMT, \-0.07%](https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/WMT?mod=MW_story_quote) is headquartered because of the quality of life and affordability.“This is the kind of thing possible and accessible now for a few million people, in companies that are fully distributed,” he said. “Our employees are all over the place.” A third of All Turtles’ employees have moved from San Francisco the past few years.There is a special moniker for Ohioans who come back to the Buckeye state after work stints elsewhere. “We call them Boomerang Buckeyes,” Chris Berry, president of [OhioX](https://www.ohiox.org/), a nonprofit dedicated to helping make Ohio a leading tech hub, told MarketWatch.Chris Bergman has had a front row seat. He grew up in Cincinnati, spent some time on the East Coast, and returned to his hometown to start Gylee Games in 2019. The videogame development studio’s Ra Ra Boom! is due as early as next year. “There is a maturity of funds. We are seeing a generation of entrepreneurs here, and most of them are staying,” says Bergman, who like others emphasizes the spirit of collaboration over competition in the Midwest.VC Venerable, raised in Hamilton, Ohio, worked for 15 years in the Washington, D.C., area before returning to his home state in 2004 to raise a young family.“A risk standard is developing in the Midwest,” said Venerable, whose portfolio of investments include “deep-thinking companies.”“We believe in edge thinkers,” said.[FULL STORY HERE](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/location-location-location-ohio-is-benefiting-in-tech-growth-as-a-major-transportation-hub-11633187887?mod=jon-swartz)

Spectrum News / Sam Knef / September 21, 2021HEBRON, Ky. — A bunch of young artists in Northern Kentucky are looking to leave their mark in the form of some giant murals that thousands of people are going to see daily.The art coincides with the opening of a new facility at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG).ArtWorks lead teaching artist Lizzy DuQuette and all of her apprentice artists have been working hard to create the murals. DuQuette said she’s very proud of the work they’ve done.DuQuette is one of three teaching artists leading six to eight apprentices.CVG’s new Consolidated Rental Car Facility aims to offer a more connected and seamless passenger experience and provide a new front door to the airport terminal. The new facility represents a $175 million investment from CVG.But it was looking a little lifeless.“When we got the building constructed, we started seeing more white walls. And we knew that we have been working toward establishing a sense of place throughout the airport. We want people to know where they are when they land,” said CVG spokesperson Mindy Kershner. “It is a front door to the region for a lot of people. So we really just wanted to add a little bit of life and color into this space.”CVG partnered with ArtWorks, a Greater Cincinnati nonprofit that transforms people and places through creative works of art.One of two larger-than-life murals they’re working on is on the first floor of the facility. It’s called "Take to the Water," and was designed by Adrienne Gaither.“It’s referencing the tunnels and bridges in Cincinnati, and the underground railroad. I think she sees Cincinnati as a gateway and a portal,” DuQuette said.It’s taken months of planning and hard labor to bring the vision to life, along with the camaraderie the team built up along the way.“Mapping out gigantic arcs. There’s a lot of geometry. There’s a lot of string and measuring and taping off, and gridding and chalk lines involved,” DuQuette said. “It’s such a challenge, and going through a challenge like that together, you become really close.”CVG plans to open the new Consolidated Car Rental Facility in mid-October. The second mural is being painted on the facility’s third floor.Christian Dallas, a contemporary painter and muralist from Northern Kentucky, will be the artist to design the application on the third-floor wall. Dallas’ contemporary style will draw on themes of movement and flight — underscoring CVG’s role in providing air transportation to connect the Cincinnati region to the world.FULL STORY HERE

Cincinnati Business Courier / Jake Rouse / October 3, 2021Braxton Brewing Co. is exploring opening a brewpub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.The board that oversees CVG recently approved a proposal to give Braxton a seven-year lease, but a deal has not been finalized.“Though we don’t have a deal signed on paper yet, we’re optimistic about the potential of this new opportunity and really excited about this new chapter for Braxton,” Braxton CEO and co-founder Jake Rouse said in a statement. “Look, traveling is always stressful, even in the best of times. We’re hoping that the potential of this new taproom in the airport gives people another opportunity to lift one to life and celebrate everything that’s good in our city right now.”If it goes forward with the project, Braxton will take the place of [Samuel Adams](https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/search/results?q=Samuel%20Adams), which shuttered its location on Concourse A in 2020.CVG CEO [Candace McGraw](https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/search/results?q=Candace%20McGraw) said Braxton will make an excellent addition because of its local following.“Braxton is very interested in coming into the airport,” McGraw said. “They’re willing to invest now when a lot of concessionaires aren’t.”Braxton will invest $400,000 in the space. The seven-year lease calls for CVG to receive 6% of gross revenues up to $850,000 in its first year in consideration of the investment, about half of what retail and restaurants normally pay. If the brewery makes more than that, it will pay 14%.After the first year, it will pay 14%. There also is no minimum guaranteed rent, something airports are unsure they can insist on given the pandemic and the uncertainty of how many customers will be coming through the airport.Braxton expanded into Ohio last year, after buying a brewery in Pendleton. It also has a taproom in Fort Mitchell in addition to its original brewery in Covington.[FULL STORY HERE](https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2021/10/03/cincinnati-brewery-looks-to-open-a-location-at-cvg.html) (subscription-based)