Watch your step: Big construction returns to Missoula Airport

In only a few weeks, the following section of main building on the Missoula Montana Airport will get underway.

However this time, building of the brand new East Concourse will not convey the form of main disruption the airport noticed throughout the brand new primary terminal building over a two-year interval.

The airport opened the brand new South Concourse final Might, culminating a multi-year effort to improve the airport with extra capability, extra safety, and options that introduced Missoula air journey into the trendy age. 

Now, consideration is concentrated on changing the previous terminal to the east, which has now been demolished. Airport Director Brian Ellestad says building of the brand new facility, generally known as Section 2, will begin this spring.

“So the previous terminal, looking my window it’s just about utterly gone. In order that they’ll begin the inspiration, the basement basis, right here within the spring or late winter. It is a $42 million mission. We have an $11 million grant from the federal authorities after which the remaining will probably be using a mortgage from First Safety Financial institution,” Ellestad explains. 

The airport’s contractors have totally different choices than throughout the South Concourse building, with the airport’s main operations having moved over to the brand new constructing. The primary options within the new area embody rental automobile counters and extra gates. Expanded baggage declare is at present within the new terminal, and will be delivered to the brand new area in phases.

“Proper now the plan is to open up the primary entrance half of the brand new Section Two in the summertime of ’24, after which the again half could be opening up in the summertime of ’25. So form of a phased method,” Ellestad says.

Ellestad expects the vertical building on the brand new East Concourse will start as quickly because the climate permits. 

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