{"id":389565,"date":"2026-09-03T20:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389565\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T20:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:02:09","slug":"new-parking-garage-just-months-away-at-jacksonville-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389565\/","title":{"rendered":"New parking garage just months away at Jacksonville International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

As vacationers head out on Labor Day weekend, the crush of travelers is already affecting Jacksonville International Airport.<\/p>\n

According to the airport\u2019s online parking status board<\/a>, the daily garage was 100% filled as of Thursday afternoon; its daily surface lot was at 90%; and the hourly garage was close behind at 78%.<\/p>\n

But by the next big holiday travel weekend \u2014 Thanksgiving \u2014 2,000 more spaces are expected to be available as\u00a0a third parking garage<\/a> opens next to the existing two, at an estimated cost of $102 million.<\/p>\n

There is no specific opening date for the new 151,000-square-foot garage, which will have six levels,\u00a0airport authority spokesperson Greg Willis said Thursday. The garage will open sometime in November before the Thanksgiving holiday, he said.<\/p>\n

Airport travelers have dealt with a year\u2019s worth of construction for the airport\u2019s third garage. Drivers have been forced to drive around fencing blocking the new site, which is on former surface parking areas.<\/p>\n

\"\"Airport passengers line up for security checks during the 2024 Thanksgiving travel season. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today<\/p>\n

Balfour Beatty Construction LLC is building the garage on a 3-acre site south of an existing daily garage, which will bring the airport up to 10,800 total parking spaces.<\/p>\n

Next on the airport\u2019s grand opening agenda is the new Concourse B, under construction since spring 2024 between existing concourses A and C. The first flights will leave the new concourse Jan. 28.<\/p>\n

Concourse B<\/a> will include multiple restaurants, a pet relief area and family-friendly seating. It will offer a children\u2019s play area as well as new shopping and dining options.<\/p>\n

Frequent flyers will have a new Delta Sky Club, which will be twice as large as the current one. A new Club JAX, which is a priority passenger lounge, also will double the square footage offered previously in the terminal.<\/p>\n

\"\"Concourse B under construction in late February 2026. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today<\/p>\n

The 165,000-square-foot building is costing $340 million, paid for through airline ticket taxes and Federal Aviation Administration trust funds.<\/p>\n

American Airlines will use five of the six new gates. The airport will use the last one for other flights as needed.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, work continues to repair damage done after fire struck the third deck of the hourly parking garage<\/a> in mid-May last year, forcing the airport to shut down for much of that afternoon. <\/p>\n

Willis said the reconstructed sections on the third and fourth decks should open next summer, restoring 300-plus spots lost to fire damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As vacationers head out on Labor Day weekend, the crush of travelers is already affecting Jacksonville International Airport.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[558,43323,116,118,1645,117,52066,115,12022,1316],"class_list":["post-389565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-business","tag-distribute","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-international-airport","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jaxtdy3","tag-news","tag-public-services","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}