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Article: Stormy weather and blue skies
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- Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
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- September 27, 2008
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Business professionals, developers and urban researchers are
increasingly dubbing Ontario, a 50-square-mile city of almost
200,000 residents, an "aerotropolis" - and with good reason.
The word is synonymous with a bustling suburban region whose
economic future rests on how well it markets its airport.
It begs the question: What would Ontario look like without L.A./
Ontario International Airport?
More housing tracts or strip malls, perhaps. Who knows?
But we know what Ontario wouldn't look like.
It wouldn't have 7 million passengers going through its airport
every year, shelling out cash for breakfast burritos, thirst-
quenching sodas and the latest edition of USA Today.
Its community ...