JFK restarts stakeholder groups
Redevelopment is focus of meetings with emphasis on community collaboration
AIRPORT VOICE, JANUARY 2022 13
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GM Charles Everett welcomed
stakeholders to the restarted
stakeholders groups
meeting just begun after the
covid pause of almost 2 years.
Referencing Governor Cuomo’s
Vision plan announced in 2017,
Everett shared enthusiasm over
the immanent beginning of info
sharing for recently announced
major redevelopment at all the
terminals at JFK which was described
at “the largest redevelopment
in airport history, if not
the world.”
Port Airside manager John
Arancio laid out the rules and
responsibilities for individuals
conducting the meetings and
the subsequent communications.
He shared how the working
group sessions would be
conducted, the core objectives
of the groups, and the breakdown
of activities that should
be used in each meeting.
To begin with, these meeting
will held monthly with different
groups meeting that week
so that a comprehensive report
can be generated for all the different
teams.
As the momentum builds,
these will become bi-weekly
meetings with more discussions
and reports to follow.
Port Program Director Jim
Steven gave an overview of
where the redevelopment has
been and where it is going.
He said that these stakeholder
meetings are important, “Open
communications so critical
within constituencies”
Despite the many months
that there has not been visible
concrete action, the program
goals and objectives have not
changed and now activity will
e-begin in earnest. “ It is same
program but tweaked and we
are learning about business
cases and a number of minor
changes have been made. He
added that the redevelopment
is to make JFK “the GO-TO airport”
he said.
We have to have the ability
to change and adapt to things
we all see coming.
The shovel in the ground
program was on pause with
over 60 million passengers
a year in 2019, but more and
more are returning and we are
back on track to 100 million passengers
in the future years as
we had envisioned Steven exhorted.
At this time approved terminal
redevelopment includes T1
(NTO), T4 (IAT-Del), T6 (JMP)
and T8 with the demolition of T2
and T7 and eventual replacement
of current T1 with the new
NTO.
The terminals are part of the
redevelopment with infrastructure
improvements needed to
support the many changes and
energy needs. Steven laid out
the changes:
-CTA roadways and utilities-
new roads and new vehicle access
-GTC Retained blue lot
for FHV and passenger parking
will eventually feature a
4th story roof level plaza with
potential design of a food
truck court, running track and
venue for carpets. Canopied
bridges between T1&T4 and
the GTC.
-Off-CTA will have well defined
simplified roadways to alleviate
central terminal area
congestion. Additional ease of
access to JFK will result fro a
dedicated airport lane on the
Van Wyck from the Kew Gardens
exchange
-Central Substation 2 will be
a new 40 MVA station between
terminals 1 and 4.
-Building 111- will b the main
building for all redevelopment
activity and shared with the airport
AOC.
All sustainability elements
recently committed by the
Port’s “Clean Dozen 2.0” will be
incorporated into the overall redevelopment.
A construction schedule
overview was shared and although
the end game is certain
to awesome, Steven admitted
that 2022-2026 will be tough
years with most work being
done and for the redevelopment
to be successful, stakeholders
and the Port will coordinate and
“play nicely.”
Happy New Year to our Chinese
Friends at the Airport