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Redmond airport director proposes 6,000 sq ft concessions expansion, two RFP packages and local‑vendor incentives
Summary
Airport director Zach Pass outlined plans to add about 6,000 square feet of concessions (roughly 4,500 sf for food and beverage and ~2,000 sf for retail), recommended a food‑hall concept, split procurement into two RFP packages to lower barriers for local vendors, and proposed scoring and a 2% rent discount to favor local goods.
Zach Pass, Redmond's urban airport director, presented a plan to expand the airport's concessions program and release two procurement packages designed to attract both national operators and local businesses.
"As part of this project, we're gonna add about another 6,000 square feet, 4,500 identified for kind of more food and beverage, then close to 2,000 for what we would call retail, gifts, water, travel essentials," Pass said. The proposal favors a mix of travel‑essentials/cafe options and a central food‑hall concept to increase customer choice and faster speed of service.
Pass said the team concluded that a travel‑essentials…
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