Business owners, elected officials and community leaders gathered to celebrate the completion and ribbon-cutting of the $125 million redevelopment of John F. Kennedy International Airport\u2019s Terminal 8 Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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Business owners, elected officials and community leaders gathered to celebrate the completion and ribbon-cutting of the $125 million redevelopment of John F. Kennedy International Airport\u2019s Terminal 8 Tuesday
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The commercial modernization of Terminal 8 is part of a multi-year, $19 billion overhaul of JFK. It includes 60 new concessions with plenty of dining and retail options \u2014 many of them local businesses with strong ties to the community
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Developed in partnership with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, American Airlines and international airport operator ASUR Airports, the new and improved terminal also includes \u201cThe Boroughs Foodhall,\u201d featuring local New York-area eateries<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we\u2019re here this morning to cut the ribbon on Terminal 8, which is really the first project at JFK that is completed,\u201d Kathryn Garcia, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said. \u201cThis is a huge milestone in our steps toward the vision of JFK.”<\/p>\n
The commercial modernization of Terminal 8 is part of a multi-year, $19 billion overhaul of JFK. It includes 60 new concessions with plenty of dining and retail options \u2014 many of them local businesses with strong ties to the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am one of the owners of Bklyn Blend. Black owned minority owned juice bar, cafe and eatery,\u201d Keishon Warren, co-owner of Bklyn Blend, said. \u201c[It’s] just surreal to me and my family to have our name in such a dynamic airport. This same airport we came to as immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n
Developed in partnership with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, American Airlines and international airport operator ASUR Airports, the new and improved terminal also includes \u201cThe Boroughs Foodhall,\u201d featuring local New York-area eateries.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe get to award our community with opportunities that they would not necessarily have,\u201d Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said.\u00a0\u201cI always say, your zip code and socioeconomic status shouldn\u2019t be a determinant of if you have access to a good-paying job in your neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neir\u2019s Tavern owner Loycent Gordon said having a concession for his business in Terminal 8 is going to help him remain in business for years to come.<\/p>\n
\u201cI own the oldest continuously operating tavern in New York City,\u201d Gordon said. \u201cIt\u2019s located in Woodhaven. I\u2019ve owned it for 16 years. I saved it from closure, and now we are reimagining what that\u2019s like going forward to get to 200 years in 2029.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other development projects underway at JFK include the New Terminal 1, which has several more years before it is complete, as well as Terminal 6, which is expected to be completed by the end of this year.<\/p>\n
And the Port Authority said the expansion of Terminal 4 is now substantially complete.<\/p>\n
The agency also said the goal of the Terminal 8 project was to elevate the passenger experience and generate economic development in the local community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business owners, elected officials and community leaders gathered to celebrate the completion and ribbon-cutting of the $125 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[25,1084,297,9,24,12,26,63,122,124,123,27,296,142,200],"class_list":["post-205604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-traffic-transit","tag-app-traffic-and-transit","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nia-clark","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic-and-transit","tag-transit","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}