Dive Brief:
- Tampa International Airport has revealed new renderings for the $1.5 billion Airside D, a new terminal with 16 gates, according to a June 5 news release.
- The roughly 600,000-square-foot aerodrome project is being led by Greeley, Colorado-based contractor Hensel Phelps and Kansas City, Missouri-based architecture and engineering firm HNTB, alongside San Francisco-based Gensler. It will be TPA’s first new airside in almost 20 years, according to the project’s website.
- The airport and construction team broke ground on Airside D in December 2024, and has been prepping the site for major construction by removing concrete, installing fencing and establishing contractor offices, among other enabling work, according to the release.
Dive Insight:
The current, $1.5 billion price tag is nearly double what Hensel Phelps originally won in 2023. Jeff Siddle, the airport’s vice president of planning and development, told the Tampa Bay Business Journal in 2024 that the increase was the result of inflation that had continued since the COVID-19 pandemic, and that the original estimate was pulled from 2021 data, which didn’t reflect the market at the time.
Airside D will contain two levels, along with a mezzanine, a new shuttle system and guideway and an international passenger arrival processing facility. It represents the third phase of the airport’s master plan, a blueprint for how it will deal with projected traveler growth, according to the release. While it currently serves 25 million passengers annually, that’s projected to grow to 35 million passengers by 2037.
Phases 1 and 2 of the plan included several major undertakings, according to the project page:
- The main terminal redevelopment.
- The SkyConnect Automated People Mover.
- A central utility plant.
- The new SkyCenter One office building.
The airport expects Airside D to open to the public in late 2028.
