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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZ-7163 Applicationcin AIRPORT PARK Z 7& FALCON JET C LITTLE ROCK REGIONAL AIRPORT City of Little Rock Department of Planning and Development Planning 723 West Markham Street Zoning and Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1334 Subdivision Phone: (501) 371-4790 Fax: (501) 399-3435 or 371-6663 March 23, 2005 O. Wayne Long Hurd Long 319 President Clinton Avenue, Ste 201 Little Rock, AR 72201 Re: Dassault Falcon Jet Dear Mr. Long: This is to confirm our conversation of earlier today. The sign -off of the proposed 40,000 + square foot addition to the Dassault Falcon Jet facility located at 3801 East 10`h Street will be the last zoning approval that can be granted at staff level. Dassault's facility is a multiple building site. Expansion and new buildings require multiple building site plan review by the Planning Commission. The Code allows staff to sign -off on a one-time expansion, not to exceed 10% of the overall building area on the site. Including past staff approvals, that figure has been exceeded. I have attached a site plan application for your information. The process typically takes six (6) weeks. Please build that time frame into any future building plans. Staff continues to be in support of Dassault's development at Little Rock Municipal Airport and we look forward to working with Dassault on any future expansion plans. If you have any questions, please call me at 371-6817. Sincerely, Dana Carney Zoning and Subdivision Manager cc: Tony Bozynski, Director of Planning and Development ARCHITECTS & DESIGN CONSULTANTS, P.A. 319 President C inton - Suite 201 • Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501/707-0335 March 21, 2005 Mr. Dana Carney Zoning & Subdivision Little Rock, Ar. Dear Dana, Please find attached 3 copies of the proposed PFJ Addition at 3801 East 10 th street. File #2004023. In Addition Per your request the following information is provided. 1. Total 5q. Ft. of Leaeed PFJ Facility M 564,100 5q. Ft. 2. Total onsite Parking is 1792 spaces not including service truck and interior parking for mise. DFJ Trucks & Autos. 3. Total employment 1600 people (including this addition) Employment ty Shift 1.1150,2. 400 & 3.50. Please, feel free to call with any questions or concerns. Sincerely 0. Wayne Long A.I.A. Irk0, _- W ARCHITECTS & DESIGN CONSULTANTS, P.A. 319 President Clinton - Suite 201 • Little Rock, Arkansas 72201 501/707-0335 May 13, 2003 Dana Carney Department of Planning and Development - Zoning & Subdivision 723 West Markham St. Little Rock, Arkansas 72201-1334 RE: Zoning & Subdivision Remark #1 in letter dated May 8, 2003 for Dassault Falcon Jet Paint & Prep. Hangar Facility @ 3801 East 10th St. - File # 2003-049 Dear Mr. Carney: The following Is in response to Zoning & Subdivision Remark #1 ; Provide a copy of the overall site Plan for the entire property for administrative review. Enclosed, Please find a copy of the overall site of Dassault Falcon Jet for your use. Please, feel free to call (707-0335) with any questions or concerns. Sincerely 0. Wayne Long A.I.A. O � ro a �� ��- Lit U f! 23 C3 0 ED C2 Q eE3 Q in -Q a .13 0 sa 0 D C3 L7 p° o i3 Ei S7cn C3 cli 5 C7 I Paul Rumbaugh (Left) and Robin Creel install a seat in a Falcon 900 at the Dassault Falcon Jet plant in Little Rock. Dassault plans to begin con- struction next month on an $8 million hangar that will double capacity. Falcon et expanding plant $8 minion 46 000-s ware -foot hangar to double capacity , BY DAVID SMITH ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZE"ITE Dassault Falcon Jet, which completes work on corporate jets at its Little Rork plant, will begin construction early next month on an $8 million, 46,000 - square -foot hangar that will double the facility's capacity. The hangar will allow work on three jets simultaneously at the facility at Little Rock Na- tional Airport, Adkins Field. The Dassault fleet currently ranges from the $20 million Falcon 50EX to the $35 million 900EX. The hangar also will be able to handle Dassault's new eight- to42-seat $37 million 7X. which will be ready for production in 2005, with deliveries in 2006. The new three -bay hangar, which will be complete in Feb- ruary, is large enough for work on the 7X. Company executives said they were unsure whether more employees will be hired when the hangar is complete. Dassault delivered 66 busi- ness jets last year, and virtual- ly every one was completed in Little Rock, where the facili- ty's 1,600 employees do every- thing from customize interiors and install avionics to paint the Courtesy of Falcon Jet Construction of a 48.000 -square - foot hangar will accommodate the company's new plane, as well as existing models. planes. owners of the Falcon Jets travel to Little Rork to take delivery of the planes. Ralph Aced, director of com- munications for Dassault in Teterboro, N.J., said it has been six or seven years since Dassault expanded significantly in Little Rock where three-fourths of the money ahead of our competi- tion, and it turned out to be a good time to do it," Aceti said. "The market really took off in 1998.and 1999, and we were able to deliver airplanes evert though we had increased production by 30 percent. See FALCON, Page 2D Falcon Jet Agin con- )mpeti- to be a eti said. k off in ere able though uction 'age 2D Arkansas courting Boeing for plant Other states pose stiff competition BY DAVID MERCER ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT -GAZETTE Arkansas economic devel- opment officials say they will offer up to three potential sites for an aircraft assembly plant Boeing plans for a new gener- ation of midsize commercial jets. Airline industry analysts cautioned that the competition for Boeing's assembly plant for the 7E7, which is still being designed, will be stiff and like- ly led by northwest Washing- ton, where the company was born in 1916. Arkansas hopes Boeing will consider locations in northeast, northwest and perhaps cen- tral Arkansas for a plant to as- semble its planned 7E7 jets, state Economic Development Director Jim Pickens said Tues- day. He declined to name the sites — though he acknowl- edged one may be a former air base in Blytheville — or say whether state officials have con- tacted the company. "We will aggressively pur- sue Boeing or any other megaprojects that we think would be a good fit for Arkan- sas," Pickens said. "I think we have some outstanding loca: tions. I think we have a dedi- cated work force." The company, which pre- sented its criteria for selecting a site last Friday, says the op- eration would employ 800-1,200 people. Boeing Commercial Airplane Group spokesman Mary Hanson declined to say what areas are in the running, only that proposals are due by June 20 and a decision is ex- pected by the end of the year. The first models could enter passenger service by 2008, with production beginning in 2005. Aircraft industry analysts noted Tuesday that the 7E7 remains only a proposal, but nge Coni fission in March sued intending the rehabilitation health- cally faked earnings since 19,36, the tuber prices expected Weyerhaeuser Co., the world's .cn't expect lumber Drices to im- Real Estate Auction THE GEORGE E. BROWN FAMILY TF Saturday May 24th 9:00 A.M.# North Little Rock, Arkan 3E PROPERTIES AT AUCTION In coordination with US Bank_ Tr?fcsaa pnii n.,,+ o . tncp ased to 10.6 percent from in the h4.9 lower,' French Finance Minister income tax- es by 5 percent in he final quar- sitive to appearances," said Espen and director of the Center for Corpo- lands, where it climbed to interview on Franer- Francis Mer said ce Iver, a rin a- 2.6 billion ter of Last euros, Nine ion south College's Tuck School of Busi- percent from 2 percent. France and Germany are like- dio station. "It's the only way we can create millduction workers who didn't earn, enough laving those kinds of interlocking re- can be quid -pro -quos." ly to exceed the deficit limit for a second year in 2003, the EU the conditions through which we will build to pay income tax also received a one -tithe payment worth an av- bid for Swiss tech firm growth." Thforecasts. e euros advance against the erage of 300 euros. The rate of savings by French Falcon forced Dassault to cut back pro- shareholder of International Air- -if- join#s-maker dimmer Hold_ duction of its jets. Charles Edel- craft Investors Inc. of Torrance, d the stakes in a competition with a r Continued from Page 1 D stenne, chairman and chief ex- ecutive officer of Dassault Calif., an aircraft leasing com- urope's biggest manufacturer of or- "We invested in the facility, then we filled it a lot Fal- con Jet, said last month that the pany that was bought out Iast year, The reasons for the decline )rthern Indiana town of Warsaw, :r cash and stock worth about $3.2 quicker than we anticipated. That al- lowed us to be able to keep up firm will deliver 50-60 jets this year, down from 66 last year and 75 in in the jet market, Lieblong said, are the economy and the fact that a Swiss company that serves the I- and dental -implant markets. with the market." Dassault clearly hopes the 2001. ders�thi yearcE corporate jets are a discretionary expense. -pied and wins European regulatory terprise would be the world's largest good timing repeats itself with this expansion, Aceti eivest nnevtold Aviation Week & 5pace Tech- "There is just an abundance of planes out there," ging together 3,600 Amer em- Ilse workers, Zimmer said. acknowl- edged that the corporate jet in- "difficult nology, and has a backlog of 138 planes. But there were also .Lieblong said. "Prices on used planes are off 35 dustry is in a envi- ronment" now. eight orders canceled. "The slowdown is percent." Dassault Falcon Jet, which has CE suing over fees think we're weathering the storm better than other com- undeniable and putting downward pressure been in business 40 years, gen- erates about two-thirds of sales Richard M. Scrushy, the former panies," Aceti said Tuesday. "We didn't overbuild two on prices," Edelstenne told the trade publication. for its parent company, French- based Dassault Aviation. ealth5outh Corp., is suing his for- e cost ofdefending himself against or three years ago as many others did. But, certainly, Alex Lieblong, president of Lieblong & Associates Inc in Lit- Dassault Falcon Jet has about 2,100 employees, including 300 tlsified i# eek in Delaware Superior Court, things are not as good as they could be. It's a very tle Rock, said the jet market is "soft from the 747s to the King in New Jersey and about 200 in Wilmington, Del. Dassault nt Scrushy signed with Health- he company to pay "coverage for competitive market now, and we're toughing it our." Air:" Lieblong is a former direc- an- nounced a $30 million renova- rought against him in his business The slow economy has for and had been the largest tion of its Wilmington service center in March. nge Coni fission in March sued intending the rehabilitation health- cally faked earnings since 19,36, the tuber prices expected Weyerhaeuser Co., the world's .cn't expect lumber Drices to im- Real Estate Auction THE GEORGE E. BROWN FAMILY TF Saturday May 24th 9:00 A.M.# North Little Rock, Arkan 3E PROPERTIES AT AUCTION In coordination with US Bank_ Tr?fcsaa pnii n.,,+ o .