AIRPORT REVIEW Denver International Airport
areas , restrooms , elevators , and escalators will be renovated .
Lastly , the airport will build a Center of Excellence and Equity in Aviation in the Transit and Hotel Center . This Center of Excellence , which will cost US $ 40 million , will provide information about aviation careers and be a focal point for training .
Phase 3 is expected to be completed between the spring of 2027 and the summer of 2028 , four years later than the original completion date of May 2024 . The total cost of the final phase will be around US $ 1.3 billion , coming from funds generated by the airport . Completing Phase 3 will bring the airport to 100-million-passenger capacity .
GATE EXPANSION
Along with the Great Hall renovations , the airport has added gates . Even as passenger traffic slowed in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic , Denver was one of the fastestrecovering airports . Luckily , the airport was already expanding and enhancing Concourses A-West , B-West , B-East , and C-East . It was the most significant expansion since the airport opened in February 1995 .
The Gate Expansion Program produced 39 new concourse gates , increasing overall capacity at the airport by over 30 %. The US $ 2.3 million program was officially completed in November 2022 .
Denver Airport broke ground on the gate expansion in May 2018 . The first completed area , B-West , opened just two years later , in November 2020 . This area featured four new gates , six hold rooms ( passenger waiting areas near gates ), and 89,247sq ft ( 8,290m 2 ) of new support space . The four new gates , which are all
12 Rendering of the Denver Airport concourse expansion project , which will include four new concourses and 100 more gates by 2045 .
13 The famed Jeppesen Terminal will undergo a complete refurbishment as part of the Great Hall Project .
14 The Great Hall Project and the Gate Expansion Project are part of Vision 100 , a plan aimed at enabling the airport to serve 100 million passengers .
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