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Phase 2 is underway and expected to be finished in 2024 and includes building the eastern ends of both concourses, building a central tunnel to connect the concourses, and demolishing buildings no longer in use. The first phase of the “New SLC” opened last fall and involved reworking the central terminal, the west ends of concourses A and B, the parking garage, roads, tunnels, parking and more. We’re now a global airport serving a global economy very efficiently,” Fredrickson said. “Because we followed that master plan’s vision, we became not just a regional airport serving a regional economy. “This really is the only big international airport that Utah is going to have, so it’s important that we find ways to get it right, and that’s really what this master plan is all about,” Bill Wyatt, executive director of the department, told the in-person and online audience at the event.Īmong the changes that could be in store are lengthening a runway, moving some operational spaces to different parts of the airport property, and building a third concourse north of the current two.īrady Fredrickson, director of planning at the airport, said the plan is “a roadmap for how we can keep this airport running as efficiently in 30 to 40 years as it does today.” The current changes at the airport were first envisioned in a 1996 master plan, and the new plan “feeds off that,” he said. The plan has been three years in the making, and finishing touches will complete the vision for the airport to meet future air transportation demand in the long term. The Salt Lake City Department of Airports (SLCDA), along with consulting firm RS&H, recently held a final public presentation of the master plan for the airport.

The second phase of the Salt Lake City International Airport’s $4.1 billion facelift is still two to three years from completion, but airport officials are looking further ahead to envision what’s next for the facility.