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Florida FBO focuses on amenities

Florida FBO focuses
on amenities
Plenty of FBOs at popular destinations offer movie rooms with giant projector screens, comfortable seating an

By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief

March 27, 2007

Florida FBO focuses
on amenities
Plenty of FBOs at popular destinations offer movie rooms with giant projector screens, comfortable seating and popcorn machines, but Avitat Boca Raton at South Florida’s Boca Raton Airport might be the only FBO with its own movie theater. The FBO is located next door to the Muvico Palace 20, a movie theater famous for its stadium seating, full bar and dinner-plus-movie balcony auditoriums.

The location of the Palace 20 isn’t coincidental; the founder of Muvico launched Avitat Boca Raton in November 2004, mainly because there wasn’t enough parking space to handle all the Muvico traffic, and there was a convenient piece of property on the airport next to the theater. But airport property comes with special requirements, usually in the form of airport minimum standards, one of which was that the landowner has to provide FBO services.

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