As part of its $230 million project to expand Terminal 2 at San Diego International Airport, Sundt has completed a new, 15,000-square-foot building with space for the USO and the airport’s parking management office. (The project is a joint venture with Kiewit Construction.) The USO will occupy the building’s first floor while the parking management office is housed on the upper level.
Currently, the USO is located in an area of Terminal 2, which it will vacate when it moves into its dedicated building in June. The parking management office was located in a building that has since been demolished.
Sundt proposed an interesting idea during the airport construction project’s design phase: once the old parking management building was gone, why not turn the space into something useful? The team ended up creating an outdoor barbecue patio complete with flags and other amenities to be used by the USO.
“It’s a nice gathering area for members of the military and their families, but it would have been just an empty space,” said Sundt Senior Project Manager Mike Hill.
The fast-track project was completed in just 16 months.