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A huge step forward Friday morning for the Jacksonville International Airport\u2019s Concourse B construction project, as airport officials laid the final metal beam in what\u2019s called a \u201ctopping off\u201d ceremony.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen terminals A and C were opened, they contemplated building Concourse B. But the economy wasn\u2019t the greatest at the time. They decided to put it off,\u201d Jacksonville Aviation Authority president Mark Van Lowe explained. \u201cSo right after 2008, they started thinking about this. And again, when I came seven years ago, it was on the drawing books, but we really didn\u2019t have the muscle to go forward. We decided with the board\u2019s approval to 1761333012 make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new concourse is expected to bring six new gates, new restaurants, and shopping options for travelers, while aiming to meet the growing travel needs of a growing city.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cExpansion like this will add that certain percentage of flights, so it\u2019s conducive for business, conducive to people that want to live here, that want to travel, for pleasure,\u201d JAA board chair David Hodges added. \u201cIt\u2019s just a big, big win.\u201d<\/p>\n Now the hope is that the Concourse B project will be completed by Christmas of 2026.<\/p>\n The project is expected to not only bring new retail and dining options for travelers, but new destinations as well.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cAmerican Airlines is taking all these new gates. Currently, American Airlines doesn\u2019t need all these gates. So if you put two and two together. We think that\u2019s big news for American, which is our number one carrier now in Jacksonville,\u201d Van Lowe teased. \u201cI would love to see Caribbean and Mexico [destinations added] immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n JAA leaders said they\u2019d also like to add flight options to Seattle and San Francisco, among other destinations.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A huge step forward Friday morning for the Jacksonville International Airport\u2019s Concourse B construction project, as airport officials…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":329817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,12402,3188,723,7310,163847,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-329816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-american-airlines","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-mark-van-lowe","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115430728294102392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}