Newark airport simply hit a significant redevelopment milestone as Terminal A opening is weeks away

The Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport (EWR) is poised to obtain a significant transformation within the coming years.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which manages the airport, introduced on Monday the collection of a grasp planner accountable for creating a plan to modernize the Newark airport.

World transportation planner Arup in partnership with SOM can be charged with executing the Port Authority’s redevelopment ambitions. Arup and SOM have labored on numerous aviation initiatives up to now at main airports equivalent to John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK) in New York, Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (LAX) and even at Newark, the place SOM redeveloped Terminal C in 2003.

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The corporations will analyze the present airport capability and construct projections for progress into the 2060s and past. Primarily based on these estimates, the corporations will create a grasp plan that’ll possible embrace a whole transformation of the airport.

Particulars are mild in the mean time, however it seems that the Port Authority is critical about making main infrastructure adjustments at Newark.

These upgrades cannot come quickly sufficient, because the airport routinely suffers from congested airside and landside areas. That is not even to say the below-average passenger expertise that’s in determined want of an enormous overhaul.

The transfer to designate a grasp planner to guide the Newark redevelopment will hopefully assist carry the power into the subsequent technology. The Port Authority is hoping to rework the New Jersey transit hub right into a world-class airport very like it is achieved on the LaGuardia Airport (LGA) in New York.

At LaGuardia, the Port Authority opened a brand-new Terminal B in mid-2020, and the undertaking simply hit 100% completion earlier this yr. In June, Delta debuted an overhauled Terminal C, which options a stupendous new arrivals and departures corridor in addition to new gate areas, amongst different enhancements.

Whereas a whole redevelopment of Newark remains to be years away, flyers will quickly get a style of what is to come back with the opening of a brand-new Terminal A within the coming weeks.

Initially purported to open this summer time, the delayed new terminal measures greater than 1 million sq. toes and can home 33 gates as soon as development is full. At $2.7 billion, the brand new Terminal A represents the most important single funding in New Jersey by the Port Authority within the company’s 101-year historical past.

Moreover, a consolidated rental automobile (ConRac) and parking storage facility are within the ultimate levels of development with a partial opening scheduled later this yr and a full opening in 2023.

Keep tuned to TPG for extra updates because the Newark redevelopment progresses!