New Salt Lake City Airport Concourse A West Opens, Demolition Phase Commences on ‘Legacy’ Airport Structures

Just a few weeks since its opening, the new Salt Lake City Airport has proven to be well-received by Utah residents and visitors, alike. And now, the Holder/Big-D joint venture has commenced with the next phase of the project – the demolition of Salt Lake’s former airport. In conjunction, the partnership continues to celebrate completion of its primary task – construction of the new airport’s Concourse A West terminal. Phase II is expected to be complete by late 2024/early 2025.

The new airport will welcome more than 34 million passengers a year to its main terminal, parking garage and two concourses. And the airport’s LEED-certified status and amenities make it one of just nine airports in the United States to have achieved this status.

Concourse A West facts + figures:

• Construction personnel worked more than 8.5 million hours
• New SLC Airport cost $4.1 billion to construct
• New SLC Airport’s footprint stretches 296.7 acres
• Airport workers installed 7,600 stone columns, guaranteeing seismic stability
• Airport workers drove more than 3,200 steel piles
• Phase 1 included 49 elevators; 29 escalators; 18 moving walkways
• New SLC’s Airport baggage system features 7 miles of conveyor belts
• Concourse A counts 25 gates in Phase I, with another 22 expected in Phase II
• The team tracked approximately 30,000 separate construction activities

From an overall perspective, there are or will be an abundance of amenities at the new airport, including 3,600 parking stalls, 24 bathrooms (in the new terminal and Concourse A West) spaced at 300 feet apart, a 28,000-square-foot Delta Sky Club and 50-foot windows centered on Salt Lake City’s striking mountain backdrop.

Between the central terminal and the A and B concourses, there will be approximately 58 shops and restaurants. Also, unique to the new terminal is the greeting room, a centralized facility that can accommodate between 300-400 people and is meant for large-scale reunions for families and friends of returning missionaries, military service men and women and others.