Dayton: There's Something in the Air!

Check out a relatively new website for Air City Dayton which is a company interested in developing a tourist industry here using the aviation theme. Whatever you think of the idea, their brand "Dayton -- there's something in the air!" is a lot catchier than "Get Midwest -- We think of everything." Check out the site. I don't agree with everything they're saying, but I wish them luck. It sounds as if they have some serious organizations behind them. Still, there's always the money.

Comments

[kyleL]

Its time to "Bransonize" Dayton? Please spare me. Their first problem is that tourism does not pay middle class salaries. While it may seem at times that any potential salary would be beneficial when manufacturing jobs are lost in the 1000s not the 100s around here, hope for the promise of tourism to revitalize a rust belt city is like far too fleeting. Dayton has strenghts of low cost of living, quality higher ed, an expanding WrightPatt, and proximity and connectedness throughout the Midwest and the East Coast. There is no silver bullet for Dayton- especially not a get rich quick tourism scheme. Hard work and ingenuity made Dayton a beacon of innovation at the dawn of the last century. The same will lead to Dayton's revitalization at the dawn of this century; Dayton's revitializaton will need to be measured in decades not years.

However, a "Wright Flyer" statue at the crossroads of 70-75 would be nice. ODOT should build it to make up for how long construction projects have taken and will take around here.

[Bill Pote]

"there's always the money"...

Bingo!

[mriceavenue]

We need dreamers in Dayton.

[MK]

Umm....enough with with the "aviation" thing. Airplanes are now a normal part of life and aren't so amazing that the simple fact that the inventors lived in Dayton will make the economy boom.

After all, Eli Whitney's cotton gin revolutionized agriculture in the late 1700's....but it's not a reason to move to Connecticut.