Newark Liberty International Airport Terminal A
6 Earhart Dr, Newark, NJ 07114
Terminal A replaced Newark's aging original facility. The planned December 2022 opening was delayed, and the new terminal officially began operations on January 12, 2023. Additional gates opened later in 2023, completing the 33-gate program.
What got built
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What changed
- Grimshaw's March 2018 renderings described a T-shaped, two-story, roughly one-million-square-foot terminal with 33 gates and cited a $1.4 billion figure for that stage of the project.
- A planned December 2022 opening was delayed. The terminal officially opened for operations on January 12, 2023, with additional gates opening in later 2023 milestones.
- The Port Authority described the completed program as a $2.7 billion, one-million-square-foot, 33-gate terminal. The sources reviewed do not establish that the 2018 and final figures cover identical scopes, so they are not treated as a like-for-like overrun comparison.
- The completed terminal includes a rooftop solar canopy of 12,708 panels.
- In 2024, Terminal A received a five-star Skytrax rating and a best-new-airport-terminal award.
Why it changed
No public explanation has been given.
What is on the record
The 2018 design report's $1.4 billion figure and the Port Authority's $2.7 billion completed-program figure may cover different scopes. Without a reconciled scope breakdown, this entry does not characterize the difference as a like-for-like cost overrun.
Details
- Status
- Built, and it follows the rendering.
- Where
- Newark, NJ
- Neighborhood
- Newark Liberty International Airport
- Developer
- Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
- Architect
- Grimshaw Architects
- Rendering credit
- Grimshaw Architects, published by Construction Dive
- The built result
- Photographed by Antony-22, 2023-08-12
Sources
- Construction Dive: 2018 design and budget announcement constructiondive.com
- Future Travel Experience: 2023 opening coverage and final cost futuretravelexperience.com
- Wikipedia: Newark Liberty International Airport Terminal A history en.wikipedia.org
- Port Authority: Terminal A officially opens for operations (Jan 12, 2023) panynj.gov
- Port Authority: Terminal A gate-opening milestone (Jul 2023) panynj.gov
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