Jacobson usually receives royalties from oil companies, which lease some of her land, but recently the checks stopped coming.
The true upper end were the 11 superluxurious floor-level suites, known as the Vault, which lease for $550,000 a year, with a three-year minimum contract.
It published figures which showed that rolling stock companies, which lease most of the coaches and locomotives used by rail operators, had made huge profits in recent years.
The economics of the business models are still to be proved by iBeam and the other start-ups, which lease satellite capacity rather than operate their own spacecraft.
The programs are brought in and sent out of the control room by wire, either to the National Broadcasting plant on Long Island, or to the broadcasting stations which lease their service.
According to Hugh Jones, airport director for the state Department of Transportation, which has managed the Republic Airport property since 1982, the rest of the 522 acres includes numerous tenants in buildings constructed over two decades, which lease their property.
