Dec 05, 2023 —
The Ogdensburg Worldwide Airport will start its renovation venture subsequent week. The multi-million greenback rework will embody extra public gathering house.
The airport’s renovation plan contains increasing the foyer and baggage declare, including extra bogs, and upgrading safety and wifi. Out of doors modifications will embody a big drop-off/pick-up space.
Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority Government Director Steve Lawrence says the targets for the updates are two-fold. One is offering higher service for air vacationers.
It is a small airport, so it is empty. So, Lawrence says they’ve provide you with a brand new concept of how you can use the house.
“It reimagines a small airport terminal as a brilliant welcoming facility that may serve each the airport and the bigger regional neighborhood,” he mentioned.
Lawrence says the design revolves round an enhanced airport terminal—what he calls the good room.
When it’s time for flights, it’s a daily airport terminal with a ticket desk, safety, and baggage declare, nevertheless it additionally has house for gatherings.
“The general public aspect of that’s when the airport’s not in use, we may do issues corresponding to weddings, seminars, or conferences and completely separate and partitioned off the good room from the airport operation, so you could possibly nonetheless absorb flights however but you could possibly have one thing happening within the nice room that might serve a public want,” Lawrence mentioned.
The Ogdensburg airport took a giant hit in the course of the COVID pandemic. Low-cost service Allegiant pulled its service and so did the important air service service SkyWest. Contour took over in 2022 with flights from Ogdensburg to Philadelphia.
Lawrence says they acknowledge how these modifications have affected vacationers.
“We’re totally different low-cost carriers to attempt to get them to return again to Ogdensburg,” he mentioned. “After we Allegiant was going robust, once we did have that, it was fairly a great factor to have for this space and that folks may entry different elements of the nation pretty simply and with out quite a lot of problem.”
The venture is estimated to price greater than $21 million. It’s obtained $18 million in state funding as part of the state’s $230 million effort to revamp upstate airports. They’re going to even be utilizing some FAA enchancment cash.
Lawrence says the primary section of building begins subsequent week. They’ll be transferring some issues round and reconfiguring utilities. That needs to be accomplished by spring and so they’ll transfer onto a second building section within the early summer season.
He says the development shouldn’t have an effect on vacationers proper now.
