San Diego County Regional Airport Authority (Airport Authority) will host the 10th annual “Meet the Primes” on September 5, 2024, from 5-7 p.m., at the Balboa Park Club Ballroom, 2150 Pan American West Road in San Diego.
Hosted by the Airport Authority’s Small Business Development Program, “Meet the Primes” is a free annual networking event uniquely designed to connect the business community with San Diego International Airport (SAN), prime contractors and concessionaires, public agencies, community banks, businesses and financial support services, and regional partners.
Attendees will learn about construction, concession, and professional service opportunities and regional teaming, partnership, contracting opportunities, and valuable resources through networking at exhibitor booths with prime contractors and Airport Authority departments.
In addition, attendees will have the opportunity to form business relationships and obtain valuable information on doing business at SAN from the Airport Authority and its partners and stakeholders, San Diego’s small business support service centers, and other public agencies.
First introduced in 2015, “Meet the Primes” has grown to be the Airport Authority’s largest annual business networking event, drawing more than 300 participants each year. It is among the Airport Authority’s efforts to maximize small, local, veteran, and underrepresented businesses’ participation in contracts with the Airport Authority and its partners.
Registration is now open at SANPrimes24.eventbrite.com; here you can view more details about exhibitors in attendance. For more information on the Airport Authority’s Small Business Development Program, please visit san.org/smallbusiness.
Exhibitors include:
San Diego International Airport Departments: Airport Design & Construction, Facilities Management, Human Resources, Labor Compliance, Marketing, Arts, and Air Service Development, Procurement, Quieter Home Program, Revenue Generation & Partnership Development, Small Business Development, and more.
Prime Contractors & Professional Services Consultants: ARRIVE New T1 San Diego Aviation Alliance Turner Flatiron Gensler, Griffith Company, Hensel Phelps and PGAL, HNTB, Jacobs, Landrum Brown, Marcon Engineering, Pacific Southwest, PCL Construction, Prava Construction Services, Inc., Sundt Construction, Inc., Swinerton, Turner Construction, and more.
San Diego International Airport Prime Concessionaires: Areas, Clear Channel Outdoor-Airports Division, Duty Free Partners, High Flying Foods, HMSHost, Hudson, Mission Yogurt, Paradies-San Diego LLC, SSP America, Team Martinez, The Marshall Retail Group, LLC, and more.
Public Agencies and Business and Financial Support Services, and Banks: Asian Business Association San Diego, California Department of General Services – Office of Small Business and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Services, California Department of Transportation District 11, City of San Diego, County of San Diego, Heis Surety and Insurance Services, Mission Federal Credit Union, North County Transit District, San Diego Unified School District, SANDAG, San Diego/Orange/Imperial APEX Accelerator, Small Business Development Center, and Veterans in Business Network, and more.
ABOUT SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (SAN)
Owned and operated by San Diego County Regional Airport Authority (Airport Authority), San Diego International Airport (SAN) is one of the busiest single-runway commercial service airports in the world and the third-busiest airport in California. SAN contributes nearly $12 billion in economic activity for the region by connecting the world to San Diego and San Diego to the world. In November 2021, the Airport Authority began construction on the New T1 which includes the replacement of the current Terminal 1, improvements to the airfield, improved transportation connectivity to the airport, and a new administration building. The New T1’s project budget is $3.8 billion and is estimated to create between 15,000 to 20,000 construction-related jobs. For more information about the New T1 please visit newt1.com. For more information about SAN please visit san.org.
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