b'92 GEG CARGOFACTS&FIGURESSpokane Intl Builds Rail-Truck Facility Project: Rail-Truck Transload FacilityLocation: Spokane (WA) Intl Airporton Surplus LandBY KRISTIN V. SHAWKey Components: 182,560 sq. ft. concrete staging area; 2 loading tracks; 1 running track; 5 turnouts Seattle is well known as thenearby Interstate 90, the Transload Facility was Cost: $14.3 millionheadquarters for Amazon, Starbuckspossible because of a unique asset at GEG: Funding: $11.3 million U.S. Dept. ofand Alaska Airlines. But its Spokane,surplus land. Transportation BUILD grant; $2 million inthe second-largest city in Washington, thatSpanning about 4.3 acres of concrete airport funds; $1 million Consolidated Railserves as the commercial, industrial andcirculation area alone, the new Transload Infrastructure & Safety Improvements grant transportation hub for an approximately 80,000Facility includes 1.7 miles of new track Timeline: Rail spur added in 2019; concretesquare mile area over three U.S. states and twoalignment, two loading tracks that are nearly& facility construction Sept. 2021-fall 2022 Canadian provinces. For instance, it anchorsa half-mile long each, plus several turnoutsGrand Opening: Fall 2023 more than 100 aerospace suppliers thatall surrounded by a long running track. And Project Management, Constructiongenerate $1 billion in revenue and employ moretheres still plenty of room for expansion, with Management & Planning: KPFFthan 8,000 workers. The city is also the home500+ acres of surplus airport land east of the Consulting Engineers of Fairchild Air Force Base and a thriving railwaynew facility and two adjacent 40-acre parcels Construction Management freight system throughout the region.on the west side available for sale or lease. Support: CBREFor the past several years, Spokane General Contractor: Halme Construction International Airport (GEG) has beenRoom for GrowthPublic Utility Design: T-O Engineers developing a new rail-truck transload facility toBefore the world essentially shut down in 2020 Geotechnical Engineering &provide multimodal freight movement servicesdue to the COVID pandemic, GEG had reached Environmental Surveys: GeoEngineers to the area. Construction is substantiallya record number of enplaned passengers in Key Goals/Benefits: Contributing to regionscomplete, and the new facility is expected to2019more than 2 million. The airport has economic health; lease revenues from surplusopen later this year. Created to meet the needssteady airline traffic with passenger service by property will help fund future developmentof the growing region and allay congestion onAlaska, Allegiant, American, Delta, Southwest projects May | June 2023AirportImprovement.com'