SRQ Airport CEO: We have more than enough land to expand

Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport CEO Rick Piccolo says available land can support passenger terminal growth without the 31 acres it leases to New College of Florida.

By Andrew Warfield
| 5:00 a.m. June 20, 2024
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The new long-range plan for Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport shows a new parking deck over the current short-term parking along with a new arrivals road, separating it from the departures traffic.

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The wall-to-wall windows that surround Rick Piccolo's office on the third floor of the terminal building provide a bird's-eye view of the airfield activity at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.

Sitting at a window-side round meeting table, he points across the tarmac and says, “If we ever need to expand, we can always do it over there.”

“Over there” is the northeastern portion of property owned and managed by the Sarasota-Manatee Airport Authority, of which Piccolo is president and CEO. There, a collection of commercial businesses lease space from the airport.