With an estimated cost of $4 billion, the project for New York City’s LaGuardia Airport is the first complete rebuild of an airport in the United States in more than 20 years.
Recently, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Vice President Joe Biden announced that workers had broken ground on the first phase of construction—a 1.3-million-square-foot, state-of-the-art, 35-gate terminal with a parking garage—after successfully closing final financial details just two weeks prior.
The airport, which is expected to receive a LEED Gold certification for sustainable design, is designed to be intuitive for passengers to navigate while facilitating efficient movement throughout the terminal for post-9/11 air travel. Other considered design details include natural light at all levels, short curb-to-gate walking distances, spacious waiting areas with large seating capacities and an overhauled TSA screening area setup designed to diminish wait times.
The construction will be completed on an expedited basis, and half of the new gates are slated to open to the public in 2018, while the main terminal and additional gates are expected to be finished in 2020 and 2021, respectively.
The new airport layout is designed to facilitate efficient movement throughout the terminal. (Image courtesy of the Office of Governor Andrew Cuomo/YouTube.)
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