John D Kasarda has researched this development around the world, he has seen how airports are evolving from transportation and supply chain-focused areas into mixed-use commercial centers
The land of opportunity is just an airport away. And you don’t have to board a plane to get there.
The gold-standard is Dubai International airport, which has a 0.6-mile-long shopping corridor that raked in a cool $1.1 billion in retail sales in 2008.
[This article has been reproduced with permission from research from the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School: http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/]