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Tampa Airport Awards Garage Construction Contract

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By TED JACKOVICS | The Tampa Tribune

Published: January 10, 2008

TAMPA - The Hillsborough County Aviation Authority today awarded an Alabama construction company a $60 million contract to build a six-story economy parking garage.

The garage will have 5,668 parking spaces, with 3,000 expected to be ready by Thanksgiving.

Brasfield & Gorrie, with headquarters in Birmingham, Ala., and offices in Jacksonville and Orlando, was awarded the contract. The garage is expected to be complete by May 2009.

The new structure will adjoin the economy garage just east of the airport post office.

Today, the aviation authority also approved a $1.8 million contract for Mathews Construction of Tampa to design a baggage claim expansion project for the main terminal that was outlined in August among the airport's 2008 goals.

Airport officials expect construction of the project to cost about $20 million. A contract for that phase has not been awarded. The project is expected to begin in early 2009 and be completed the same year.

The new baggage claim project would replace all 17 existing bag claim devices and add four new ones. It is expected to handle baggage more efficiently for the 12 million to 14 million passengers expected to use the airport annually by October 2015. That is when a new North terminal is scheduled to open to relieve passenger traffic at the main terminal.

The current baggage system was designed to accommodate about 10 million inbound passengers annually, the amount that uses the airport today.

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