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Hollywood Burbank Airport Gets Closer to Its Close-Up The new passenger terminal at Hollywood Burbank Airport continues to get ready for its close-up. With steel framing finished, the terminal building is approximately 55 percent completed and on schedule for an October 2026 opening. Upon completion, the terminal will consist of a 355,000-sq.-ft. building with 14 passenger gates, shops, restaurants, a ticketing lobby and a new TSA checkpoint and baggage claim area. Mike Headley, a project superintendent with Holder, Pankow, TEC — a joint venture, said the terminal is brand new ground up construction with a new entrance. The $1.3 billion project also includes concourses, a new parking garage and parking spaces. “The whole goal is not to increase the size and quantity of passengers,” Headley said. “By having a new airport being built, we’re able to increase the efficiency of the airport. The old airport has two terminals and two TSA gates, splitting the airport into two. This new airport is going to allow us to have all 14 gates under one terminal, which allows for one TSA checkpoint, it allows for one baggage pickup area. It allows us to unify the airport into one single entity.” The new terminal is a design-build project and is being constructed on an accelerated three-year schedule. A similar project would take years longer. “While we’re out in the field building this, we have a whole design team actively working to finish out the design,” Headley said. Construction started in January 2024, but the terminal itself began being built in May 2024. The existing airport is on the southeast corner of the site. The new terminal building is on a parcel a little more than 1,000 ft. away so construction will not affect airport operations. However, dust screens A rendering of the new passenger terminal at Hollywood Burbank Airport.
By Jay Nachman
CEG CORRESPONDENT
To conform to California’s building codes, every aspect of the building, from the steel to the MEP installation, was designed with seismic protections.
and fencing will be constructed while demolishing the old terminal to make sure the work doesn’t affect operations of the new one. Nonetheless, said Jack Chapman, a manager with Holder, Pankow, TEC, “While we do have the benefit of it being a somewhat self-contained site, it is still tight. While it may look large from a bird’s eye view, we have to take a lot of special considerations into account to make sure we have enough space for equipment and material.” Because of the space constraints, the project is using ontime delivery. “There are almost three projects going on,” Headley said. “There’s our civil responsibilities, which is paving, the taxiways and the gate. We have garage operations and pouring concrete. And then the entire build out of the terminal. see HOLLYWOOD page 6