A quick update on things at the airport:
Boeing is constructing a massive 191,000 sq foot addition onto it's Salt Lake Airport plant. The addition will provide additional space for Boeing to construct vertical tail fins and horizontal stabilizers for the Boeing 787 as well as other aircraft in the Boeing commercial fleet (mostly 737) and will house a new painting facility as well. Boeing has added jobs to the SLC plant over the last year and the CEO of Boeing has spoke of more expansion of the SLC operation as recently as March. “We’re going to grow here in Puget Sound. We’re going to grow in Charleston. We’re going to grow in Salt Lake, in Winnipeg,” Boeing Commercial Airplanes Chief Executive Jim Albaugh told the Seattle Times in March.
So good economic news continues for Utah. Hopefully Boeing will see the value of our workforce and will continue to expand. There's still plenty of land to lease them surrounding their facilities at SLC.
I will try and get some pictures of the rather large addition under construction. It's big but mostly visible from the airfield than public side.
The UTA Welcome Center, pictured below, is in its finishing stages of construction. This will be the station for TRAX at the airport, at least until the new terminal is built. The picture doesn't represent the final look of the station, there is still exterior work to be done.
The environmental assessment is complete for the new terminal master plan(s). Architectural and engineering companies are in the process of drawing up more specific plans for what is to be built.