Sacramento Airport Opens $1 Billion, Art-filled Terminal (PHOTOS)
Posted By Admin on October 15, 2011
By DON THOMPSON, Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento International Airport is scheduled to open a $1 billion terminal Thursday, replacing a structure that is four decades old with a building that is designed to be a striking entrance to Californias capital region.
The $6 million in public art includes a distinctive centerpiece that is certain to generate attention, a suspended-in-air, 56-foot-long aluminum red hare leaping into a suitcase that dominates the glass-and-steel entryway.
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People will remember this airport, said construction worker Monique Hawn.
The terminal is among the largest construction projects in Sacramento Countys history and created 2,400 jobs during the 2 1/2 years it was being built, the heart of a recession that has left state and regional unemployment hovering around 12 percent.
The new terminal, elevated people mover and concourse are designed to expand the airports capacity to 16 million passengers a year, a surge that had been expected in about a decade, county Airports Director G. Hardy Acree said.
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