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Boone County

Burlington
Published May 9, 2026 Reviewed May 15, 2026 16 disclosures

Reports are dated; investigate on the ground before acting.

Population
136,150
Seat
Burlington
Region
Northern Kentucky
Candidates
5
Capital range
$25K–$1.2M
Last reviewed
2026-05-15

Boone is a county of about 136,000 people on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, directly across from Cincinnati. Burlington is the county seat; Florence is the largest city at roughly 33,000 residents. Median household income runs about $99,400, the highest of any county in Kentucky.

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport sits in Hebron and anchors the local economy. DHL Express runs its Americas Hub there with about 4,300 employees, and Amazon Air operates its primary global air-cargo hub on a $1.5 billion campus. A real aerospace manufacturing cluster sits alongside the airport, anchored by Safran Landing Systems in Walton — the only Safran carbon-brake plant in North America — and Mazak Corporation in Florence.

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is the largest healthcare employer in Northern Kentucky at roughly 10,000 regional workers, with a major Boone facility in Florence. Boone County Schools runs about 20,400 students across 28 buildings.

Five candidates run from $50,000 to $300,000 in founder capital across aging-in-place trades, school-facilities subcontracting, and the high-income professional-services market the suburban Cincinnati metro creates.

01

What this place actually is.

Population 136,150 (Census ACS 5-year 2022). Median age 38.0. Median household income $99,414 (Data USA 2024 — Kentucky's highest county MHI; higher than the $91,697 ACS 2022 5-year figure because the county is growing). Poverty 5.7%. Housing-unit vacancy 4.2%. Labor force participation 69.2%. Boone's numbers read as suburban Cincinnati metro, not as rural Kentucky, and the candidate set has to read accordingly.

The economic engine is logistics. Boone holds 3,178 CBP establishments / 87,000 employment / approximately $4.5 billion in annual payroll. The two largest payroll concentrations are Wholesale Trade ($818 million) and Transportation & Warehousing ($746 million) — combined $1.56 billion in logistics-economy payroll. Health Care & Social Assistance, by contrast, holds 311 establishments / 5,439 employees / $296 million in payroll — roughly 6.5% of total county payroll. Boone is not a healthcare-led economy. It's an air-cargo and wholesale-distribution economy with healthcare as a high-commercial-mix layer on top.

The CVG anchor stack is genuinely unique in Kentucky. Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (Hebron, governed by the Kenton County Airport Board which captured $174.97 million in FAA AIP awards over the last three years) hosts DHL Express's Americas Hub (~4,300 employees, with a $292 million / 305,000-square-foot aviation maintenance facility opening January 2026 that will add 300 jobs), Amazon Air's primary global hub (~15,000 area employees across a $1.5 billion campus), FEAM Aero (the family-owned Part 145 MRO founded in 1992 by Fred Murphy, with 200+ technicians at CVG and a new $45 million three-bay 767-capable hangar operational since March 2024), and L2 Aviation (the Dripping Springs Texas–headquartered AS9100D/PMA avionics specialist with a $12.2 million Boone facility that opened April 2025 and is hiring 250 jobs through 2025–2026). Plus Atlas Air, ABX Air, Air Transport International, Lufthansa Cargo, Cathay Cargo, Cargolux. CVG ranks among the top seven cargo airports in North America by volume.

Sitting alongside that air-cargo gravity is a real aerospace manufacturing cluster. Safran Landing Systems (Walton, the only Safran carbon-brake plant in North America, $48.4 million in DOD awards plus a $65 million Walton expansion announced for Boeing 737/777/787 carbon-brake capacity ramp), Mazak Corporation (Florence, 518,320 square feet, NASA-tagged $5.33 million in awards), Starrag USA (Hebron, aerospace machine-tool TechCenter), HDT Expeditionary Systems (Florence, $26.25 million DOD for military shelter and CBRN systems), AQW Inc, Desma USA. The Kentucky Aerospace Industry Consortium (KAIC) was seeded with a $1.5 million OLDCC grant to protect this DOD supply chain. BE NKY (Tri-ED) has documented approximately 30 aerospace companies, 11,000 NKY aerospace residents, and $13 billion+ in Kentucky aerospace exports for 2023. Toyota Motor North America corporate HQ moved to Plano, Texas in 2017; only Toyota Boshoku Americas (Erlanger, seat and interior R&D) and the TMMK Georgetown supplier base remain in Kentucky.

Healthcare is a high-commercial-mix layer on top of the logistics economy, not an anchor. St. Elizabeth Healthcare is the largest employer in Northern Kentucky (~10,000 employees regional) with St. Elizabeth Florence as the major Boone facility and a 125,000-square-foot expansion underway. Boone has 66 physician offices and 54 dental offices — an unusually high dental-to-physician ratio (0.82 vs typical 0.5). Only three freestanding ambulatory-surgery-class establishments operate in Boone; Kentucky's anti-proliferation Certificate of Need regime constrains new ASC entry, and St. Elizabeth has historically opposed competitive applications. The $99,414 median household income combined with 5.7% poverty creates an unusually high-commercial-mix payer base.

Schools and local government carry institutional-vendor density few Kentucky counties match. Boone County School District is one of the largest districts in the state — 20,356 students across 28 schools, approximately 1,300 staff, 30% minority enrollment, 29.2% economically disadvantaged. Walton-Verona Independent (1,881 students, 4 schools) and Erlanger-Elsmere Independent (2,399 students, 8 schools, 59% economically disadvantaged) operate as separate districts. Add Boone County Fiscal Court (running an OpenGov procurement portal), the City of Florence (~33,000 population, the largest city), the City of Burlington (county seat), Union, Walton, Hebron, Boone County Parks (21 parks), the Boone County Sheriff and Detention Center, the Northern Kentucky Independent District Health Department, and Gateway Community & Technical College ($47.96 million in federal awards). All within twenty minutes of one another. The procurement engine is real and visible at named portals (procurement.opengov.com/portal/boonecountyky for the Fiscal Court, kentuckybids.com for school districts).

Three patterns shape the candidate set below. First, Boone has 3,178 establishments and most categories look served, so the openings come from credential moats — specialty cuts inside otherwise-saturated trades. Second, the high household income supports candidates that don't pencil in lower-income counties: estate planning with an LL.M.-Tax pedigree, aging-in-place general contracting at $35,000 to $55,000 average tickets, equity-compensation-aware tax work. Third, global anchors like DHL Group and Amazon.com run worldwide vendor-master files with multi-year AS9100 and NADCAP qualification cycles. Selling into them is a different procurement muscle than the small-prime federal-vendor work that opens doors in rural Kentucky.

Geography: Boone sits at the northwest corner of Kentucky, bordered by the Ohio River to the north (Cincinnati Hamilton County across the river holds approximately 830,000 people — the regional metropolitan anchor). 246 square miles, density approximately 553 people per square mile (eight times Pike's 72/sq mi). I-71 and I-75 split the county; CVG sits in Hebron near the river. The largest cities are Florence (~33,000), Burlington (county seat), Union, Walton, and unincorporated Hebron (the airport-adjacent industrial-park footprint). Boone County's Plan 2045 comprehensive plan was approved February 2026 and is reshaping zoning along the Hebron/Burlington corridor. Florence Mall — the regional retail anchor — is in structural collapse: vacancy approached 50% by early 2026 with all four anchor boxes for sale (Macy's listed at $13 million in April 2025). The City of Florence has hired a redevelopment consultant. The mall's redevelopment is a once-per-generation real-estate catalyst that sits beyond the sharky-entrepreneur capital tier, but it shapes the surrounding retail landscape.

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG)
(governance: Kenton County Airport Board) · Air cargo — top-7 North American cargo airport; $174.97M FAA AIP capture; DHL Americas Hub + Amazon Air primary global hub on-field
DHL Express Americas Hub
~4,300 employees · Logistics — largest hub in DHL's Americas network; $292M / 305K sqft / 300-job aviation maintenance facility opens January 2026
Amazon Air (CVG global hub)
~15,000 area employees · Logistics — primary global air-cargo hub for Amazon; $1.5B campus, 7 buildings, 800K-sqft sortation, ~50M packages/month
FEAM Aero
200+ technicians at CVG · Aviation MRO — family-owned Part 145 (founded 1992 by Fred Murphy); $45M three-bay 767-capable hangar operational March 2024; partnership with Epic Flight Academy A&P school
L2 Aviation
Hiring 250 by 2025-26 · Avionics MRO — Dripping Springs TX–HQ AS9100D/PMA specialist; $12.2M Boone facility opened April 2025
Safran Landing Systems Walton
~340 KY-resident employees · Aerospace manufacturing — only Safran carbon-brake plant in North America; $48.4M DOD awards + $65M Boeing-driven expansion announced
St. Elizabeth Healthcare
~10,000+ regional · Healthcare — largest employer in Northern Kentucky; St. Elizabeth Florence is the major Boone facility with 125K sqft expansion underway
Boone County Schools
~1,300 staff · Public K-12 — 20,356 students across 28 schools; one of Kentucky's largest districts; OpenGov + KentuckyBids procurement
Walton-Verona + Erlanger-Elsmere Independent Schools
(combined ~1,200 staff) · Public K-12 — separate districts; combined ~4,280 students across 12 schools; distinct procurement cycles
Toyota Boshoku Americas (Erlanger)
(R&D + corporate offices) · Auto-supplier R&D — seat and interior development arm. Toyota Motor North America corporate HQ moved to Plano TX 2017; only the Boshoku R&D presence and the TMMK Georgetown supplier base remain in Kentucky
Gateway Community & Technical College
(KCTCS workforce-development node) · Workforce development — $47.96M federal awards over 3 years; KY FAME consortium delivery for Toyota/Safran/Mazak/Starrag aerospace and advanced manufacturing pipelines
02

The candidates.

5 business openings the data points to. Each carries a candidate page with the operating math, named operators to call, and the acquisition or build path. Capital and Year-3 ranges are surfaced here; full assumptions live on each candidate page.

Candidate register 5 ranked openings math, operators, and next calls inside each memo
Rows are clickable
By reader profile
Tradesperson going independent
School facilities subcontractor across Boone districts Aging-in-place CAPS contractor in Boone
Existing operator pivoting
Aviation MRO subcontracting at CVG AS9100 cert-readiness consulting for NKY shops School facilities subcontractor across Boone districts Estate planning and elder law boutique in Boone Aging-in-place CAPS contractor in Boone
03

Who to call this week.

Who to call. Public-record offices and operations leads across the anchors, the schools, the fiscal court, and the workforce-pipeline partners. Use them to test or kill each candidate's thesis quickly.

Tier 1

  • Boone County Fiscal Court — procurement office
    Procurement officer for the OpenGov portal (procurement.opengov.com/portal/boonecountyky); current sealed-bid backlog and trade-vendor list under KRS 45A.345.
    (859) 334-2105
  • Boone County Parks — Director Dwight Whitehouse
    Mowing and athletic-field contract cycle; current vendor roster across the 21 parks.
    (859) 334-2117
  • Boone County Schools — purchasing
    Vendor list, BG-1 bond requirements, and the last 24 months of awarded subs by trade. Cooper HS Fieldhouse Addition A/E status.
    (859) 283-1003
  • St. Elizabeth Healthcare — Care Coordination main line
    Discharge-planning supervisor: where do PT/OT discharge planners refer when a home requires structural modification?
    (859) 301-3627
  • City of Florence — economic development office
    Florence Mall redevelopment consultant scope and timeline; small-business permitting.
    (859) 647-5413
  • Kenton County Airport Board (CVG) — procurement
    Tenant-services and airfield-vendor pathways for FAA Part 145 specialty work.
    (859) 767-3151
  • Gateway Community & Technical College — Workforce Solutions
    KY FAME consortium contacts for Toyota, Safran, Mazak, and Starrag pipelines; aerospace cert workforce subcontracting.
    (859) 442-1600

Tier 2

  • Northern Kentucky Area Development District (NKADD) — Council on Aging
    Title-III Older Americans Act referrals and the aging-in-place contractor referral question.
    (859) 283-1885
  • Kentucky APEX Accelerator — Northern Kentucky office
    Federal-procurement counseling, DIBBS bid-match, and SAM.gov supplier-portal registration for the aerospace and aviation candidates.
    (859) 392-2417
  • SBA Kentucky District Office (Louisville)
    7(a), 504, Microloan, HUBZone, and 8(a) referrals across all five candidates.
    (502) 582-5971
  • BE NKY (Tri-ED) — aerospace recruitment
    Kentucky Aerospace Industry Consortium (KAIC) member roster, Tier-2 supplier development, and the $1.5 million OLDCC grant deliverables.
    (859) 344-0040
  • Northern Kentucky Bar Association — referral service
    Estate-planning and elder-law referral channel; succession-aged solo practitioner introductions.
    (859) 781-1300
  • NAHB Certified Aging in Place Specialist (CAPS) program
    Boone-county CAPS holder list and the next CAPS course schedule.
    (800) 368-5242
04

Operators in this market.

Top operators across the anchor stack. The Kenton County Airport Board running CVG; DHL Express and Amazon Air on the global-cargo side; FEAM Aero, L2 Aviation, and Safran Landing Systems on the MRO and aerospace-manufacturing side; St. Elizabeth Healthcare as the dominant regional health system; Boone County Schools and the Walton-Verona and Erlanger-Elsmere independent districts as the K-12 procurement layer; Boone County Fiscal Court and the City of Florence as the local-government layer; Gateway Community & Technical College as the workforce-pipeline anchor.

Market posture labels
Active in market
Operator
Role
Market posture
  • Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG)
    Top-7 North American cargo airport — governed by the Kenton County Airport Board
    Active in market
    Hebron. Captured $174.97 million in FAA Airport Improvement Program awards over the last three years.
  • DHL Express Americas Hub
    Largest hub in DHL's Americas network
    Active in market
    About 4,300 employees. $292 million / 305,000-square-foot aviation maintenance facility opens January 2026, adding 300 jobs.
  • Amazon Air (CVG global hub)
    Amazon's primary global air-cargo hub
    Active in market
    About 15,000 area employees across a $1.5 billion campus, 7 buildings, 800,000-square-foot sortation, roughly 50 million packages per month.
  • FEAM Aero
    Family-owned Part 145 aviation MRO — founded 1992 by Fred Murphy
    Active in market
    200-plus technicians at CVG. New $45 million three-bay 767-capable hangar operational March 2024. Partnership with Epic Flight Academy A&P school.
  • L2 Aviation
    AS9100D / FAA Part 145 / PMA avionics specialist — headquartered Dripping Springs, Texas
    Active in market
    $12.2 million Boone facility opened April 2025. Hiring 250 through 2025-26.
  • Safran Landing Systems Walton
    Aerospace manufacturing — only Safran carbon-brake plant in North America
    Active in market
    About 340 Kentucky-resident employees. $48.4 million in DOD awards over three years. $65 million Boeing-driven expansion announced for 737, 777, and 787 carbon-brake capacity.
  • Mazak Corporation
    Machine-tool manufacturer
    Active in market
    Florence. 518,320 square feet. NASA-tagged $5.33 million in awards.
  • Toyota Boshoku Americas
    Auto-supplier R&D — seat and interior development
    Active in market
    Erlanger. Toyota Motor North America corporate HQ moved to Plano, Texas in 2017; only the Toyota Boshoku R&D presence and the TMMK Georgetown supplier base remain in Kentucky.
  • St. Elizabeth Healthcare
    Largest employer in Northern Kentucky
    Active in market
    About 10,000-plus regional employees. St. Elizabeth Florence is the major Boone facility, with a 125,000-square-foot expansion underway.
  • Boone County Schools
    Public K-12 — one of Kentucky's largest districts
    Active in market
    20,356 students across 28 schools. About 1,300 staff. Bids through OpenGov and KentuckyBids.
  • Boone County Fiscal Court
    County government
    Active in market
    Runs the procurement.opengov.com/portal/boonecountyky procurement portal.
  • Gateway Community & Technical College
    KCTCS workforce-development node
    Active in market
    Captured $47.96 million in federal awards over three years. KY FAME consortium delivery for Toyota, Safran, Mazak, and Starrag.
05

Acquisition register.

Businesses for sale or near succession, organized by signal strength. Tier 1 operators carry the strongest succession profile — long tenure, founder-era ownership, no public successor, fit for a working buyer. Tier 2 carry one or more of those signals but not all. Tier 3 are long-tenure operators without a proximate exit signal. A separate already-bridged tier lists incumbents that are reference benchmarks rather than acquisition targets, including the global anchors and Cincinnati-side competitor firms. Two caveats on the named detail: we do not have the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce roster, so member-by-name coverage is partial; and several Boone federal-award rows are place-of-performance attribution rather than awardee-headquarters, so a few entries describe a pattern instead of naming a prime.

Strongest

Strongest succession signal

  • Long-tenure Northern Kentucky solo elder-law and bankruptcy attorney, in practice since 1987, JD/MBA pedigree, principal age approximately 68, roughly 8,000-client base — bankruptcy and personal-injury primary with estate-planning sideline. The estate-planning book is plausibly buyable as a carve-out rather than a full firm purchase. We have the Kentucky Bar Association and Secretary of State filings to confirm, but are holding the name until we make a referral-channel introduction. Name withheld pending consent
    Estate planning + elder law (succession-aged solo, Boone-area)
    • Founder-era ownership likely intact
    • Multi-decade tenure
    • Specialty-EP carve-out value distinct from primary book
    • NKY Bar referral channel relationship
    KY Bar Association directory pull + NKY Bar referral-channel introduction
  • Long-tenure Northern Kentucky solo generalist attorney, in practice since 1994, principal age approximately 60-plus. Generalist book with probate and elder-law as a significant component. Carve-out potential at 100 to 200 active estate clients. Name held pending referral-channel introduction. Name withheld pending consent
    Estate planning + elder law (generalist with probate practice)
    • 30+ year tenure
    • Founder-era practice
    • Probate and elder-law segment within generalist book
    KY Bar Association directory pull + direct outreach via NKY Bar Association referral service
  • BOLD Company
    Aging-in-place / residential remodel (Boone-HQ pivot candidate)
    500+ custom homes built — Union KY-area
    • Boone-HQ residential builder + remodel arm
    • No published CAPS credential — pivot candidate to add aging-in-place specialty
    • Long operating history; ownership tenure unverified pending KY SoS pull
    KY SoS entity-age check + direct outreach to discuss CAPS-pivot partnership or acquisition
  • Chris Hollon Construction
    Aging-in-place / residential remodel (Boone-HQ pivot candidate)
    Boone County residential remodeler — Hebron/Burlington/Florence service area
    • Boone-HQ remodeler with BBB A+
    • No CAPS credential currently — pivot candidate for aging-in-place specialty
    • Existing trades crew + customer base in target subdivisions
    KY SoS entity-age check + chamber introduction
Mixed

Some signals, not all

  • Kloeker Law, PLLC
    Estate planning + elder law (mid-life specialist)
    Recent solo practice — Boone-area EP focus
    • Markets to Boone/Kenton/Campbell
    • Mid-market pricing tier (not HNW-credentialed)
    • Adjacent referral / partnership candidate rather than acquisition target
    859-462-1110
  • Hoffman Walker & Knauf
    Estate planning + elder law (NKY general practice with EP)
    35+ years combined
    • Florence, 7348 US-42 Ste 202
    • Family law primary; estate planning and probate as secondary practice area
    • Greta Hoffman Walker and Kyle R. Knauf are the principals
    • Not HNW-deep — referral / partnership candidate
  • Boone-resident NAICS 2382 and 2383 specialty trade contractors with Kentucky Secretary of State entity registrations dated before 2000 — a statistical pool of 6 to 10 succession-aged candidates inside Boone's 296-establishment construction base. A targeted SoS bulk pull surfaces the named candidates. Name withheld pending consent
    Aging-in-place / specialty trades (succession-aged generalist remodeler pool)
    • Pre-2000 entity-formation date
    • Sole-prop or small-LLC structure with founder-era ownership
    • Trades-specialty alignment with aging-in-place scope (carpentry, plumbing, electrical, tile)
    KY SoS bulk-pull with Boone-resident NAICS 2382/2383 + ranking by file date
Long tenure

Long tenure, no exit signal yet

  • Kentucky-resident NDT, calibration, and GSE-repair micro-shops in Northern Kentucky zip prefixes 41005 through 41099. Most CVG MRO labor today runs W-2 to FEAM, AMES, L2, and Safran, or routes through out-of-area subcontractors. The Kentucky-side specialty-subcontractor lane is thin; the FAA Part 145 directory for these zip codes is the source for any named target. Name withheld pending consent
    Aviation MRO subcontractor pool — KY-resident specialty
    • Specialty trade with FAA Part 145 or NADCAP-cert potential
    • Adjacent to CVG aviation cluster
    • No public listing or web presence at this stage
Bridged

Already-bridged operators — reference benchmarks, not targets

Operators whose succession transitions are publicly executed. Included as the local pattern, not as acquisition opportunities.

  • FEAM Aero
    Aviation MRO — Boone anchor (already-bridged reference)
    Founded 1992 by Fred Murphy; CVG since January 2020
    • Family-owned, veteran-owned
    • 200+ technicians at CVG; 250K sqft hangars including new 150K-sqft three-bay 767-capable facility (March 2024)
    • Partnership with SunAero (aerospace sealants); partnership with Epic Flight Academy A&P school
    • Reference benchmark — not an acquisition target
  • L2 Aviation
    Avionics MRO — Boone anchor (already-bridged reference)
    Founded 1997 by Mark Lebovitz; HQ Dripping Springs TX (NOT Decatur — Decatur is AeroBrigham, a separate Part 145 firm); CVG facility grand opening April 2025
    • $12.2M Boone manufacturing operation
    • AS9100D/ISO 9001/FAA Part 145/PMA
    • 250 jobs hiring through 2025-26
    • Reference benchmark for aviation MRO subcontractor candidate's competitive landscape
  • Safran Landing Systems Walton
    Aerospace manufacturing — Boone anchor (already-bridged reference)
    Walton facility approximately 25 years; $65M expansion announced
    • Only Safran carbon-brake plant in North America
    • $48.4M / 25 awards in DOD over 3-year window plus $1.84M Wheel & Brake Services LLC
    • Customers: UPS, FedEx, United, Allegiant, Boeing 737/777/787, C-17, KC-135
    • Reference benchmark for AS9100 cert-readiness consulting + NADCAP supply-chain candidates
  • St. Elizabeth Healthcare (Florence facility)
    Healthcare anchor — multi-county (already-bridged reference)
    Largest employer in Northern Kentucky; ~10,000+ employees regional
    • St. Elizabeth Florence with 125,000-sqft expansion underway
    • Multi-county system with Edgewood, Ft. Thomas, Florence, Grant Co facilities
    • GPO + national-vendor procurement; anchor-locked at the system level
    • Reference benchmark for healthcare specialty-services candidates (anchor-adjacent, not anchor-direct)
  • Frost Brown Todd
    HNW estate planning — Cincinnati-side competitor (already-bridged reference)
    Founded 1919; FBT-Gibbons merger January 2026; 475+ lawyers
    • Florence office in Boone County; Cincinnati HQ
    • Full Private Client / Family Wealth Planning practice with multiple ACTEC fellows
    • Wins most $5M+ NKY estate matters
    • Reference benchmark for the Boone-HQ HNW estate-planning candidate's competitive landscape
  • Dinsmore & Shohl + Taft Stettinius & Hollister
    HNW estate planning — Cincinnati-side competitor (already-bridged reference)
    Both with Covington offices serving NKY
    • Dinsmore Covington since 2014 (~6 attorneys, Private Client and Family Office Services group)
    • Taft Covington (national Private Client practice)
    • Cross-river capture of Boone HNW work is real and sticky
  • The Motz Group
    Local consolidator — athletic-field synthetic turf (already-bridged reference)
    Cincinnati turf/athletic-field specialist with documented Boone County School District project portfolio
    • Already-defended athletic-field synthetic-turf lane
    • Reference benchmark — not an acquisition target
    • Indicates which sub-lanes within school facilities are already locked
  • Messer Construction Co + HGC Construction
    School-facilities-CM-at-risk competitor (already-bridged reference)
    Cincinnati-metro general contractors — Messer founded Cincinnati 1900s, HGC Ohio-based 1931
    • Capture CM-at-risk and large-GC roles ($5M+) including Cooper HS / Ryle HS Fieldhouse-tier work
    • Not bidders at the $40K-$250K subcontract sweet spot a Boone-HQ multi-trade vendor targets
    • Reference benchmark — not competitors at the candidate's revenue tier
  • Legacy Builders Group + DeVol Design Build Remodel
    Cincinnati-side aging-in-place CAPS — already-defended (cross-river)
    Legacy Builders 35 years (Otte + Haussler, founded 1991, Montgomery OH); DeVol Cincinnati east side
    • Both lists 'Northern Kentucky' in service area; cross-river travel is the moat the Boone-HQ entrant attacks
    • Reference benchmark for the CAPS GC candidate's competitive landscape
  • Gateway Community & Technical College + Epic Flight Academy
    Workforce-pipeline anchor (already-bridged reference)
    Gateway (KCTCS) decades-mature; Epic Flight Academy CVG school opened April 2024
    • Gateway $47.96M federal awards; KY FAME consortium delivering for Toyota/Safran/Mazak/Starrag
    • Epic Flight Academy 32K-sqft, $8M, FEAM partnership for A&P student pipeline + work-while-training
    • Reference benchmark for aviation A&P workforce-services and aerospace-cert workforce subcontracting
06

What we ruled out — and why.

We started with roughly 75 categories that the data and the suburban Cincinnati metro could plausibly support. We ruled out 70 of them. The published candidates are the five that survived.

Boone's saturation profile sets the bar higher than in most Kentucky counties. Most retail, food service, residential service, and consumer-facing categories are already served by Cincinnati-metro chains crossing the river or by Northern Kentucky incumbents. The eliminated list is therefore long and specific.

Three categories below are worth flagging because they showed real signal and were still ruled out. Florence Mall adaptive reuse is a real once-per-generation catalyst — vacancy approaching 50%, all four anchor boxes for sale, Macy's listed at $13 million in April 2025 — but the deal scale sits beyond a working-operator capital tier. A new multi-specialty ambulatory surgery center against St. Elizabeth opposition is blocked by Kentucky's Certificate of Need regime. And the recurring-suburban plays around standby generators, paint-protection film, and premium pet boarding are honorable mentions that did not displace any of the five published candidates.

Killed because Cincinnati-metro chain saturation makes new entry uncompetitive

  • Restaurants — full-service, limited-service, snack/coffee
    324 establishments in NAICS 72 (Accommodation/Food). Saturated. Florence Mall corridor, US-42, Mall Road are chain-anchored.
  • Generic auto repair
    66 establishments in NAICS 8111. Cincinnati-NKY chains (Hiller, A+ Derr) own this market with scale advantages.
  • HVAC, plumbing, general electrical
    Cincinnati-NKY service-industry chains (Hiller, A+ Derr, Bryant) capture this category. Standby-generator install is a separate niche addressed below.
  • Generic landscaping / lawn care
    Boone-HQ operators plus Cincinnati-side route-density vendors saturate the residential tier. Athletic-field specialty is the candidate-relevant niche, addressed in school-facilities lane.
  • Standard senior in-home care
    Home Instead, Assisting Hands, Senior CommUnity Care PACE all active. Pulaski-style structural absence does not exist here.
  • Premium pet daycare (standard tier)
    Doggie Paddles, On Point Pet Resort, Frogtown, Allie's Walkabout — at least four named premium operators serve the $99K-MHI cohort. Vet-medical-tier boarding considered separately and ultimately killed.
  • Generic basement waterproofing
    EverDry, Jaco, Woods, A2B — all named active operators in Boone.
  • Standard yoga / Pilates / fitness
    Orangetheory Union-Florence, multiple boutique studios, F45 already saturate.

Killed because the math doesn't clear $100K take-home in Boone's high-MHI / high-cost market

  • Long-distance trucking — single owner-operator
    Commodity pricing applies regardless of MHI. Single-truck owner-op rarely clears $80K take-home.
  • Auto detailing — single operator
    Informal-commodity tier; rarely clears the floor in any KY market.
  • Generic janitorial — single crew
    Boone has 22 NAICS 561720 firms; commercial janitorial for the wholesale tier was considered separately and killed because Cincinnati-side commercial cleaners (ABM, ServiceMaster Clean, Jan-Pro franchises) bid Boone routinely; margin compression from W-2 model.

Killed because the regulatory pathway is structurally closed

  • New multi-specialty Ambulatory Surgery Center (independent, physician-owned)
    Kentucky Certificate of Need is anti-proliferation. The capital-expenditure threshold for new ASC capacity is in the $4 million range under 900 KAR 6:030. St. Elizabeth dominates the Northern Kentucky surgical market and has historically opposed competitive applications. Beacon Orthopaedics, OrthoCincy, and Commonwealth Orthopaedics already capture commercial volume across the river. Single-specialty ASCs in dermatology or ophthalmology sometimes survive CON; new multi-specialty entry against St. Elizabeth opposition does not. Worth a follow-on piece for physician investors, not a working-operator candidate.
  • VA-funded home health / Medicare-certified home health
    Kentucky CON is anti-proliferation; OIG home-health licensure is 18-36 months; CMS Conditions of Participation. Not a feasible new-entrant path.
  • Hospice and palliative care
    Same CON anti-proliferation regime.
  • Adult day care licensed under 922 KAR 3:040
    CHFS DAIL licensing requires fixed dementia-secure facility, RN/LPN, transport fleet — capital 5-10× above the candidate cohort tiers.
  • New marina / outdoor-recreation infrastructure
    USACE / USFS shoreline-licensing pathways gate new infrastructure. Boone has limited federal-recreation footprint relative to Pulaski / Pike anyway.

Killed because no in-scope reader profile can act on them

  • Specialty therapy services — physical, occupational, speech (solo-clinician)
    Licensed clinician operating their own practice. The W-2 multi-district school-services-platform model is the candidate-relevant variant and survives as part of the school facilities candidate's adjacent register.
  • Mobile veterinary
    Licensed DVM only.
  • Engineering services — stamped PE
    Licensed PE only. Boone has 11 NAICS 541330 establishments vs ~22 expected per national benchmark — gap is real but operator-credential gates entry to non-PE founders.
  • Outpatient mental health / SUD — clinical practice
    Licensed LCSW / LPCC required.
  • Solo-clinician aesthetics medicine / med spa
    Licensed physician supervision required for IV / Botox; the category is also saturated by Cincinnati-side med spas (Mona Dermatology, Cincinnati Skin & Cancer) and PE-backed chains (Ideal Image, LaserAway scoping NKY).

Ruled out because the signal is generic across counties rather than rooted in Boone's specific structure

  • ABA / pediatric specialty therapy concierge / private-pay tier
    Real demand exists (median age 38, autism prevalence ~1/36, Boone's premium-MHI cohort). But APT, Key Behavior Services, BlueSprig, CARD, Pediatric Associates of NKY are all active. The 'premium tier' framing risks defamation (implies named incumbents are not premium). Cincinnati-side concierge models capture the willing-to-drive cohort. Better positioned as a follow-on niche pivot for an existing operator than a standalone Boone candidate.
  • Direct primary care employer-sold to CVG cluster
    Real opportunity in principle — DHL/Amazon Air/logistics employers as DPC employer-clients. But: Toyota Motor North America HQ moved to Plano TX 2017, removing the largest assumed corporate buyer and reducing the cluster math; St. Elizabeth Physicians has an aggressive employer-relations team that competes for the same accounts; sales cycle 12-18 months. Worth a follow-on probe; doesn't carry standalone candidate weight against the five we're publishing.
  • Specialty / compounding pharmacy with CVG cold-chain shipping advantage
    Real signal (D&R Pharmaceutical Services $2.65M VA awards). But heavy regulatory (KY Board of Pharmacy, USP 797/800, FDA 503A/503B, DEA), capital-intensive ($1.5M+ build-out), and the PBM gatekeeping (Express Scripts, OptumRx, CVS Caremark) is the actual moat — not compounding capability. Sharky-entrepreneur fit is poor.
  • Premium pet medical-grade boarding (vet-tech-on-staff)
    Real niche (CVG cargo-crew + senior-pet cohort + four named premium-pet incumbents leave a vet-medical seam). But $400K-$700K facility capital + vet-tech staffing + thin TAM mean the candidate barely clears $100K take-home. Marginal.
  • Whole-house standby generator install (Generac/Kohler authorized)
    Real gap — no Boone-resident Generac PowerPro dealer, and Cincinnati-side electricians treat Boone as edge territory. But the same recurring-suburban shape could surface in any Cincinnati exurb. Strong honorable mention; cut because it does not draw on anything specific to Boone the way the five published candidates do.
  • Mobile high-line auto detailing + paint protection film (PPF) for German/luxury
    Real luxury-vehicle density (highest in KY per anchor-employer cohort). Genuine specialty niche. But the $250K take-home ceiling at finite buyer pool (200-400 truly-eligible vehicles per year) makes this a marginal $100K-clearer rather than a flagship Boone candidate.
  • European-marque independent service garage (BMW/Audi/Mercedes/Porsche)
    Real gap (NKY's nearest independent European specialists are Louisville). But ASE L1 + factory-trained tech + factory diagnostic equipment + Cincinnati-side dealer pricing competition put this candidate at credentialed-trades depth that overlaps the aerospace and CAPS GC candidates' operator profiles.
  • Reggio / Montessori bilingual micro-school
    Real demand (Boone median age 38 + dual-corporate-earner households + 13.7% YoY home-price growth). But 18-month launch runway, $400-700K facility build-out, and AMS/AMI Montessori teacher certification compress the operator pool. Not strong enough to displace the five published candidates.
  • Equity-compensation-specialty CPA (RSU/ISO/NQSO planning)
    Real demand from Toyota Boshoku Erlanger, Fidelity Investments NKY (~4,700 employees), and the DHL Express and Amazon Air pilot cohorts. But the candidate overlaps the estate-planning HNW boutique on the same wealth-tier professional-services profile. Mentioned as an adjacent path inside that candidate's register rather than surfaced separately.
  • Specialty insurance brokerage for ATV-fleet / STR / aviation
    Generic recurring shape, transferable across any county with anchor tourism or anchor aviation. Not specific enough to Boone to carry standalone candidate weight.
  • Cargo-crew rotational housing (CVG)
    Real anchor demand (Atlas Air, Amazon Air, ABX, DHL, Lufthansa Cargo, Cathay). But too parallel to Pike's Hillbilly Trails ATV cabin / Pulaski's lake-cabin candidate template. Two STR-shaped candidates across four counties is a template tell; cut to avoid recurrence pattern.
  • Florence Mall adaptive reuse / redevelopment-services brokerage
    REAL once-per-generation catalyst — vacancy approaching 50%, all four anchors for sale, Macy's listed $13M April 2025, City of Florence has hired a redevelopment consultant. But $5-15 million deal scale beyond the sharky-entrepreneur capital tier. The cross-reference belongs in the county overview as a context-setting catalyst, not a candidate. The eventual buyer is institutional capital + medical-system or fitness-cluster operator, not a sharky entrepreneur.
  • Production-builder trades labor brokerage (Fischer Homes / Drees / Arlinghaus)
    Real construction labor shortage; named builders verifiable. But trim-carpentry crew margin is $120-140K take-home with cyclical exposure and crew-recruiting as the actual binding constraint, not finding work. Marginal.

Killed because the supplier-graph candidate template doesn't translate to global-tier customers

  • NADCAP chemical-processing micro-shop (anodize Type II/III, passivation, chem-film)
    Real signal — Safran Walton landing-gear demand, and a thin Northern Kentucky AS9100 cert bench. But aerospace primes route most aero-grade chem processing through OEM-approved vendor master lists, not local convenience. Where Safran's chem processing actually goes today is unverified. Folded into the AS9100 cert-readiness candidate as an adjacent recommendation rather than a separate candidate.
  • ISO/IEC 17025-accredited dimensional + tooling calibration lab
    Same OEM-VML gating risk. National players (Transcat, Tektronix Cal, Trescal) all serve Cincinnati. Strong adjacency to the AS9100 cert-readiness candidate; folded into that candidate's cantSee + roadmap as a partner-or-pivot lane rather than separate candidate.
  • Aerospace / cargo packaging / dunnage / ESD-spec shipping crate fab
    Real demand at CVG anchor density. But mostly served by approved-packager supply-chain incumbents and Cincinnati-side packaging shops; cap-ex moderate but margin compression on commodity wood-crate work is real. Folded into adjacencies.
  • Specialty cargo + aerospace freight forwarder (ITAR/DG)
    DSV, Kuehne+Nagel, Expeditors all live at CVG; specialty niche exists for ITAR + AOG + IATA DG agent work but bonded-warehouse capital and customer-concentration risk are real. Worth a follow-on piece.
  • Tooling crib + on-site tool-room services
    Cluster-cannibalization risk: Mazak and Starrag are themselves tooling vendors. Folded into adjacencies.
  • Specialty NDT field-service crew (FPI/MPI/UT/radiography)
    Strong on regulatory framing (NAS 410 / NADCAP AC7114). Real and viable. Folded into the aviation MRO subcontracting candidate's whyTheData paragraph as a specific specialty path within the broader candidate.
  • IATA-DG lithium battery packaging & repack services
    Real demand at CVG (DHL + Amazon parcel-volume both ship lithium-DG). But Labelmaster, Specialty Industries, and Hazmat Safety Consulting serve this market nationally. Folded into adjacencies of the aviation MRO subcontracting candidate.
  • Bonded drayage / FTZ-47 container cartage
    Real regulatory niche (FTZ-47 weekly-entry rule + bonded carrier + TSA IAC). But Hub-Group, Schneider, JB Hunt, XPO drayage CVG already; differentiation requires bonded + IATA DG-rated drivers. Folded into adjacencies.
  • Aircraft glycol / deicing recovery & stormwater compliance
    Inland Group (IDS) entrenched at CVG. The opportunity is ramp-tenant glycol-handling at the airline-tenant tier. Folded into adjacencies.
  • Aviation A&P mechanic staffing
    Real demand (DHL +300 jobs Jan 2026, FEAM expansion, Safran wheel-brake services). But STS Aviation Services, AAR Mobile, Launch Technical Workforce Solutions are national players with MSP relationships. The Gateway CTC + Epic Flight Academy graduate pipeline is the local-capture moat — folded into adjacencies.
  • Pilot/crew rotational hospitality and ground transport
    Real cargo-crew demand. But hotel-chain group sales + InterContinental airline-crew programs already serve. Folded into adjacencies.
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Frequently asked questions.

What are the largest employers in Boone County, Kentucky?
The economic engine is logistics. Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport hosts DHL Express Americas Hub at roughly 4,300 employees and Amazon Air's primary global hub at about 15,000 area workers. St. Elizabeth Healthcare runs roughly 10,000 employees regional. FEAM Aero, L2 Aviation, Safran Landing Systems, Mazak Corporation, and Toyota Boshoku Americas round out the manufacturing and MRO layer.
What business opportunities exist in Boone County under $300,000 startup capital?
Two of the five candidates fit that range. The aging-in-place general-contracting de novo path runs about $60,000 to $120,000 for a CAPS-credentialed trades operator. The school-facilities subcontracting candidate runs roughly $50,000 to $200,000 to begin bidding the recurring small-to-mid trade sub work at Boone County Schools, Walton-Verona, and Erlanger-Elsmere.
Why is Boone County the highest-income county in Kentucky?
Boone is the Kentucky-side suburb of Cincinnati. Median household income is about $99,400 — driven by the CVG air-cargo and aerospace cluster, Cincinnati-metro commuters, the Fidelity Investments NKY campus, and a $353,000 median home value that pulled in 13.7% year over year. Poverty runs 5.7%; labor force participation is 69.2%.
What is the Florence Mall situation in 2026?
Florence Mall is in structural collapse. Vacancy approached 50% by early 2026, and all four anchor boxes are for sale — Macy's was listed at $13 million in April 2025. The City of Florence has hired a redevelopment consultant. The eventual deal is institutional-scale capital, not a working-operator play, but the redevelopment is reshaping the surrounding retail corridor.
What is the Kentucky Aerospace Industry Consortium?
KAIC is the state-supported industry organization seeded with a $1.5 million grant from the federal Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation. It coordinates Tier-2 supplier development for Safran Landing Systems, Mazak, Starrag, and the broader Northern Kentucky aerospace cluster. BE NKY (Tri-ED) leads aerospace recruitment and documents roughly 30 NKY aerospace companies and 11,000 aerospace residents.
Why doesn't a new ambulatory surgery center work in Boone County?
Kentucky's Certificate of Need regime is anti-proliferation. New ASC capacity over the capital threshold in 900 KAR 6:030 requires state approval. St. Elizabeth Healthcare dominates the Northern Kentucky surgical market and has historically opposed competitive CON applications. Beacon Orthopaedics, OrthoCincy, and Commonwealth Orthopaedics already capture commercial volume from across the Ohio River.
Where can I find Boone County government procurement opportunities?
Boone County Fiscal Court runs an OpenGov portal at procurement.opengov.com/portal/boonecountyky. Boone County Schools and the Walton-Verona and Erlanger-Elsmere independent districts post sealed bids on kentuckybids.com. KRS 45A.345 sets a $40,000 sealed-bid threshold for most state and local government procurement.
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How we read this place.

We pulled what's in public records for Boone — Census ACS 5-year demographics, County Business Patterns establishment counts, Nonemployer Statistics, BLS Local Area Unemployment trend, USAspending federal awards, IRS Form 990s for institutional anchors. We then ran ground-truth web research across procurement portals (procurement.opengov.com/portal/boonecountyky for the Fiscal Court; kentuckybids.com for school districts), KY Bar Association membership, KY Secretary of State entity records, FAA Part 145 directories, NAHB CAPS directories, IAQG OASIS aerospace cert listings, and the trade press relevant to each sub-economy. Where a primary-source artifact existed (a DHL corporate press release, a state Cabinet for Economic Development announcement, an FAA AIP grant detail, a Lane Report investment story), we cite it.

Four caveats shape what we have not verified. First, we do not have the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce roster; chamber capture is the single most useful next step for strengthening named-operator detail across the five candidates. Second, several federal awards in Boone are place-of-performance attribution rather than awardee-headquarters — A&H Security Cabinets, a GSA-active vendor with place-of-performance Hebron, is one example, and we describe a pattern rather than naming a prime where awardee headquarters is not yet confirmed. Third, the public AS9100 cert directory at machineshop.directory is known incomplete; the IAQG OASIS authoritative directory is the source of record for any standalone cert-gap claim. Fourth, Toyota Motor North America corporate HQ moved to Plano, Texas in 2017 — only Toyota Boshoku Americas in Erlanger and the TMMK Georgetown supplier base remain in Kentucky, and candidates that lean on a Toyota corporate-services thesis have been sized accordingly.

Boone is the first saturated-suburban county we have published. Warren is manufacturing-led, Pulaski is healthcare-led, Pike is coal-transitioning. With 3,178 establishments most categories look served, so the candidate filter shifts toward credential moats — specialty cuts inside otherwise-crowded categories — rather than wide-open structural absence. We started broad across six parallel reads (aerospace and defense, the CVG cargo stack, healthcare and St. Elizabeth, schools and local government, Cincinnati spillover, and specialty saturation) and filtered to five candidates that demonstrate distinct mechanics: institutional-anchor MRO subcontracting at CVG, AS9100 cert-readiness consulting, the schools-and-fiscal-court sealed-bid sub portfolio, a high-income estate-planning boutique, and demographic-driven aging-in-place general contracting. Candidates that look promising elsewhere in Kentucky were considered and ruled out for Boone-specific reasons documented in the eliminated section.

Honest acknowledgment: the high-income suburban profile pushes the candidate pool toward credentialed and capitalized plays more than the prior three counties did. Of the five candidates, only school-facilities subcontracting and aging-in-place general contracting open clear paths for a trades operator going independent. The other three require Cincinnati-firm pedigree, FAA or AS9100 cert depth, or a capital partnership with a credentialed founder.

We have not yet reached FEAM Aero procurement, L2 Aviation supplier registration, DHL Americas Hub aviation maintenance procurement, the Safran Walton supplier-quality team, the named succession-candidate attorneys, the named pivot-candidate remodelers, Boone County Schools purchasing, the Boone County Fiscal Court procurement officer, the NKADD Council on Aging, or St. Elizabeth Care Coordination directly. Those calls are queued for the v0.2 round. Where a direct conversation would change the picture — chamber consent on naming, succession openness on named operators, MCO procurement at St. Elizabeth, the IAQG OASIS pull, the FAA Part 145 directory enumeration for Boone zip codes, or a Kentucky Secretary of State bulk pull on Boone-resident NAICS 332, 333, and 336 firms — we say so on the relevant candidate page.

Source families
Census ACS 5-Year Estimates
2022 (cross-checked against Data USA 2024 for MHI corrections)
Census County Business Patterns
2022
Census Nonemployer Statistics
2021
BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
2024-2025
USAspending federal awards
2023-2026 3-year window
FPDS-NG procurement detail
2023-2026
IRS Form 990 (via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer) — St. Elizabeth, Gateway CTC, Beckfield College, NKY institutional anchors
FY2024
FAA Airport Improvement Program (AIP) award records
2023-2026
DHL Express corporate press release (Oct 22 2024)
2024-10-22
KY Cabinet for Economic Development announcements (FEAM, L2, Safran, Beshear)
2023-2025
Manufacturing Dive — Safran $65M Walton coverage
2024
Lane Report — L2 Aviation 250 jobs CVG (April 2025)
2025-04
Boone County OpenGov Procurement Portal
Captured 2026-05
Boone County Schools KentuckyBids feed
Captured 2026-05
Northern Kentucky Chamber roster (NOT captured — gap; parallel to Pikeville and Somerset)
2026-05
Web research sweep (KY Bar, KY SoS, NAHB CAPS, IAQG OASIS, AirDNA, NKADD, BE NKY, KAIC)
May 2026

Full Source Register with claim-level provenance is maintained internally and available on request.

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Acronyms used in this report.

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ACS — American Community Survey
Census Bureau 5-year estimates.
AIP — Airport Improvement Program
FAA grant program for airport capital projects.
AS9100 — Aerospace quality-management-system standard published by the IAQG
ASC — Ambulatory Surgery Center
CAGE — Commercial and Government Entity code
Issued by the Defense Logistics Agency.
CAPS — Certified Aging in Place Specialist
NAHB credential.
CBP — County Business Patterns
Census Bureau annual establishment dataset.
CBRN — Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear
CHFS — Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services
CMMC — Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification
32 CFR Part 170.
CON — Certificate of Need
Kentucky anti-proliferation regulatory regime for new healthcare capacity.
CTC — Community and Technical College
CVG — Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport
Located in Hebron, governed by the Kenton County Airport Board.
DAIL — Kentucky Department for Aging and Independent Living
DG — Dangerous Goods
IATA classification for air shipment.
DLA — Defense Logistics Agency
DOD — U.S. Department of Defense
DPC — Direct Primary Care
DSV — DSV A/S — global transport and logistics firm
EP — Estate Planning
FAA — Federal Aviation Administration
FAR — Federal Acquisition Regulation
FAME — Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education
KCTCS workforce-pipeline consortium.
FBO — Fixed-Base Operator
General-aviation services provider at an airport.
FQHC — Federally Qualified Health Center
HRSA Section 330 designation.
FTZ — Foreign Trade Zone
GSE — Ground Support Equipment
HNW — High Net Worth
HUD — U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
IAQG — International Aerospace Quality Group
Maintains the OASIS supplier registry.
IATA — International Air Transport Association
ITAR — International Traffic in Arms Regulations
22 CFR 120-130.
KAIC — Kentucky Aerospace Industry Consortium
Seeded with a $1.5 million OLDCC grant.
KAR — Kentucky Administrative Regulations
KCTCS — Kentucky Community & Technical College System
KDE — Kentucky Department of Education
KEDFA — Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority
KLC — Kentucky League of Cities
KRS — Kentucky Revised Statutes
LL.M. — Master of Laws
Post-JD specialty law degree.
MCO — Managed Care Organization
Kentucky Medicaid panel.
MHI — Median Household Income
MRO — Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul
Aviation services category.
NADCAP — National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program
PRI special-process accreditation.
NAICS — North American Industry Classification System
NDT — Non-Destructive Testing
Aerospace and industrial inspection category.
NKADD — Northern Kentucky Area Development District
NKU — Northern Kentucky University
NKY — Northern Kentucky
OLDCC — Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation
DoD defense-community grant office.
PMA — Parts Manufacturer Approval
FAA approval to manufacture aircraft replacement parts.
PPF — Paint Protection Film
RFP — Request for Proposals
SBA — Small Business Administration
SDE — Seller's Discretionary Earnings
Small-business valuation metric.
SoS — Secretary of State
Kentucky business-entity registry.
STR — Short-Term Rental
TMMK — Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky
Georgetown, KY assembly plant.
UEI — Unique Entity Identifier
SAM.gov registration.
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Disclosures.

Items we have not independently confirmed, items under active litigation, and items where the responsible party is not publicly named. Listed so a reader can weight the report accordingly.

  • Unverified Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce member roster
  • Unverified Awardee-headquarters for several Boone place-of-performance federal vendors (A&H Security Cabinets and others)
  • Unverified IAQG OASIS authoritative AS9100 directory listing for Kentucky-resident certificated shops
  • Unverified FAA Part 145 directory enumeration for Boone-county zip codes (41005, 41011, 41014-41018, 41042, 41048, 41051, 41074, 41091, 41094)
  • Unverified Kentucky Secretary of State bulk pull on Boone-resident NAICS 2382/2383 specialty trade contractors with pre-2000 entity registrations
  • Unverified Boone County Schools current vendor list, BG-1 bond requirements, and last-24-months awarded subs by trade
  • Unverified Boone County Fiscal Court procurement officer current sealed-bid backlog and trade-vendor roster
  • Unverified St. Elizabeth Care Coordination discharge-planning referral pathway for home structural modification
  • Unverified FEAM Aero procurement scope on specialty subcontracting (which sub-categories are outsourced versus kept in-house)
  • Unverified L2 Aviation supplier-registration pathway and current Tier-2 vendor list at the new CVG facility
  • Unverified DHL Americas Hub aviation-maintenance procurement scope for the $292 million January 2026 facility
  • Unverified Safran Walton supplier-quality team scope on chem-processing routing for the carbon-brake line
  • Unverified Boone County 65+ owner-occupied household count via ACS B25007 by age
  • Unverified NAHB Certified Aging in Place Specialist directory listings for Boone-resident contractors
  • Pending Florence Mall redevelopment consultant scope and timeline
  • Unverified Kentucky Bar Association directory verification on the two named succession-aged solo attorneys
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May 9, 2026
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