Miami-Dade Aviation Director Emilio T. Gonzalez met with the president and board of the Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce at Miami International (MIA) this week to provide the group with an overview of what’s going on at the airport and to discuss partnership opportunities.
The chamber represents the interests of minority small businesses in South Florida and the meeting marked the latest in MIA’s community-engagement series, an ongoing outreach effort aimed at strengthening ties between the airport and the local community.
Among the topics of discussion were current and future projects at the airport that could be opportunities for small local businesses represented by the chamber.
“MIA is the economic driver of this community, but that message – and the opportunities that can come with it – doesn’t always reach our local small-business people,” Gonzalez says. “Our goal with these community-engagement meetings is to tell our story to local stakeholders and to find areas where we can work together and make them an integral part of our success.”
