Kansas City’s new airport terminal now has an opening date, mayor announces
Kansas City’s new airport terminal now has an official completion date, almost exactly four years after construction began: March 3, 2023.
In a Twitter post Wednesday, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said the Kansas City Aviation Department had announced the date, and it was shown in a schedule presented to the City Council’s Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations Committee during a presentation from the department that day.
Joe McBride, the department’s spokesman, confirmed in an email that the terminal is scheduled to be completed on that day, with a grand opening in the following weeks.
The date, he said, has been noted in several project updates.
During the presentation, department officials were seeking authorization of a contract with JBT AeroTech Corp. to build glass boarding bridges at the airport. The authorization was unanimously advanced to full council.
Construction on the new single-terminal airport began on March 25, 2019, and officials predicted then that construction would take four years.
According to the project’s website, the 1 million square foot terminal is the largest infrastructure project in Kansas City history.
This story was originally published December 9, 2020 at 11:15 AM.
