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New St. Louis bond issue will fund STL upgrades

By Adele C. Schwartz
ATW's Airports Today, July, 2009, p.4

Nearly half the proceeds--about $59.5 million--of St. Louis's new $125 million bond issue will pay for the next phase of Lambert Field's Airport Experience terminal and concourse modernization program, continuing through 2012.

Installation of a new inbound baggage system in the 53-year-old main terminal is to be completed this month. The system, manufactured by VanDerLande Industries of the Netherlands, includes six new carousels with conveyor systems from ground-level bag makeup and two oversize claim units. The building's historic domed ceilings were renovated last year as part of the $17 million project.

New ticket counters and flooring, security checkpoints, restrooms, restaurants and concessions, ceilings, lighting and signage for the airport's older sections are part of the program. Design work for renovation of Concourses A, B and C will be finished by December, with construction beginning next spring. Replacement of all roadway signs along Lambert International Blvd. will start in the fall.

Other projects in the five-year capital improvement plan include climate control upgrades, new roofs on the three concourses, six new loading bridges, emergency generators and new elevators in the main terminal garage. Some $20.3 million in airfield improvements also will be paid for by the bonds.

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