How SkyBridge creates opportunity to grow other business sectors

Helping break ground at SkyBridge Arizona are Jose Pablo Martinez, SkyBridge project manager; Pete Wentis, senior vice president, CBRE; Felipe Monroy, SkyBridge Developments; Ariel Picker, president, Skyplus Developments; Mayor John Giles, City of Mesa; Councilmember; Kevin Thompson, City of Mesa; Jeff Flemming, director, ADM Group; Rusty Martin, project executive, Graycor Construction Company; and J. Brian O’Neill, executive director and CEO, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Authority. / AZBigMedia

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Erik Lee, executive director for North American Research Partnership, summarizes the impact very succinctly. “SkyBridge is the most consequential Mexico-Arizona business project in this part of Arizona,” Lee states emphatically.

SkyBridge marks the nation’s first inland air cargo hub to house a joint United States-Mexico customs facility. The recent groundbreaking of SkyBridge, housed in Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, marks an opportunity for 17,000 projected long-term jobs to enter the region — both directly and indirectly. But job creation is just one snippet born of a much larger “SkyBridge vision.”

“Mexico continues to be our No. 1 trading partner by far,” explains Chris Camacho, president and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC). “In the last three to four years, we’ve really enhanced our relationship with the State of Sonora and other states.”

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