Executive Summary | March 2026
America's First Integrated eVTOL–Autonomous Vehicle Mobility Hub
A comprehensive analysis of the market opportunity, technical architecture, financial projections, regulatory pathway, and investment case for transforming the historic Texas & Pacific Warehouse in downtown Fort Worth, Texas into the nation's first multi-modal eVTOL and autonomous vehicle transportation hub.
Trinity Air Link is a proposed public-private transformation of the historic Texas & Pacific Warehouse in Fort Worth into a capital-light, integrated mobility hub. The platform combines air mobility, ground mobility, and innovation-center tenancy in one strategic downtown node.
Fort Worth faces rising congestion, strong population growth, and a need for better multimodal connectivity. Trinity Air Link addresses that need with phased execution and an operator-access model designed to scale without requiring baseline fleet ownership.
Rooftop vertiport and passenger-processing infrastructure designed for certified third-party operators as routes and certifications progress.
Ground mobility facilities designed to connect neighborhoods, transit stations, and destination districts into a coordinated first/last-mile network.
120,000 SF innovation-center program that adds recurring non-ticket revenue and attracts transportation, logistics, and advanced-technology tenants.
The 8-story Texas & Pacific Warehouse is an architecturally significant historic property adjacent to Fort Worth's Amtrak station, TEXRail terminus, and Trinity Metro bus hub — one of the only sites in the region with the scale and intermodal connectivity required for a true transportation hub. Federal Historic Tax Credits reduce effective renovation cost.
The FAA eVTOL Integration Pilot Program selected Texas DOT + Archer Aviation as a national site. The program creates a formal pathway for operational integration planning and regulator coordination while FAA certification and safety requirements remain fully in force. Fort Worth can position as the western DFW vertiport anchor.
Preferred launch structure: $107M–$113M capital-light case phased across planning/regulatory, selective infrastructure activation, and systems/launch readiness.
Moderate case: $133.4M annual revenue and $44.9M EBITDA, with infrastructure and platform fees as the core earnings engine.
Calculated IRR: 24.8% before terminal value; NPV @ 10%: $89.7M before terminal value. Terminal value is presented separately as exit/refinance upside.
The base case remains capital-light and operator-access. Owned fleet exposure is optional and treated as a non-baseline pathway.