Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is moving ahead on the largest capital project in its history, with a $332 million construction contract up for approval by the state’s spending board next week.
The multi-year project, which was delayed amid the pandemic, will renovate and expand the connector between concourses A and B, add new passenger amenities including food and retail concessions and new restrooms, install a new baggage handling system and create larger gate areas to accommodate the bigger airplanes being flown by Southwest Airlines, the airport’s largest carrier.
The price tag for the entire project is about $452 million, which includes about $425 million for construction, said Jonathan Dean, a BWI Airport spokesperson. Preliminary plans call for the main pieces of the project, including the connector, baggage handling system and gate areas, to be completed by late 2025, with everything wrapped up by summer 2026.
On Oct. 12, the project will take a major step forward as the Maryland Board of Public Works, which consists of Gov. Larry Hogan, Comptroller Peter Franchot and state treasurer Dereck Davis, will vote on approval for a roughly $332 million construction contract to Bethesda-based Clark Construction Group. Clark Construction had previously received about $28 million worth of state contracts related to the project, including a $25.6 million contract awarded in January for mobilization, site prep, utility surveying and other early construction activities.
