Mountain States & Southwest Industry News: April 2025
The design of Terminal 3’s North 2 Concourse provides the structure with the flexibility to accommodate future expansions and technological advancements.
Image courtesy Hok and DFDG Architecture
“It is essential that all ongoing airport operations at the terminal continue with minimal disruption during the construction of this project.”
—Thomas Assante, Vice President of Operations, McCarthy Southwest
Sky Harbor Launches North 2 Concourse Project as Terminal 3 Expansion Takes Off
McCarthy Building Cos. is building the $326-million North 2 Concourse in Terminal 3 at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The project includes the addition of six new passenger gates that will bring the terminal’s total to 26. Demo of the Annex Building is currently underway.
The new concourse will add approximately 173,000 sq ft of space across a multilevel design, with a passenger level featuring gate hold rooms, public restrooms and spaces for future retail or tenant buildouts. An upper mezzanine level will include a lounge, back-of-house areas and an exterior terrace, and the apron level will accommodate aircraft service and essential support spaces. An elevated connector bridge will link the North 2 Concourse to the existing Terminal 3 processor and is designed to enable a future tunnel connection to Terminal 4’s North Concourse.
Designed by HOK in collaboration with DFDG Architecture, the concourse project team is pursuing LEED certification at the Silver level or higher.
Sky Harbor representatives report that Terminal 3 handles approximately 25% of passenger traffic at the airport annually and served more than 52.3 million passengers in 2024.
Haydon Breaks Ground on Buckeye, Ariz., Marketplace
Haydon recently broke ground on the $275-million Verrado Marketplace, an open-air retail, dining and entertainment center in Buckeye, Ariz. Set to open in 2026, the marketplace is located at the entrance of the 8,800-acre Verrado master-planned community. The 500,000-sq-ft project is expected to generate nearly 1,500 permanent jobs and deliver more than $50 million in tax revenue for the city of Buckeye over the next decade, according to a statement from the project’s ownership team.
Workforce Innovation Center Takes Shape in Greeley, Colo.
Roche crews have broken ground on the $25.5-million Workforce Innovation Center in Greeley, Colo.
Image courtesy Oz Architects
Roche Constructors broke ground in March on the $25.5-million Workforce Innovation Center on the Aims Community College campus in Greeley, Colo.
OZ Architecture is leading design of the 45,000-sq-ft center, which will “serve as a convening space in northern Colorado’s entrepreneurship ecosystem, providing a hub for innovation, business development and job training by fostering collaboration between students, start-ups and industry leaders,” according to a statement from the college and project team.
The center will feature spaces for students and community members to use emerging technologies such as virtual and augmented reality tools. It will also offer business incubator space, with manufacturing labs and outdoor testing areas able to accommodate power, data and space needs for high-tech equipment. The facility is set to open in fall 2026.
Expansion to Lift Capacity At Utah’s Hyrum Dam
MES Federal Contracting Group has been awarded a $115.9-million contract from the Bureau of Reclamation for the construction of a new spillway at Hyrum Dam located in Hyrum State Park, just south of Logan, Utah. Crews will replace the 90-year-old spillway and expand the dam’s outlet works, increasing discharge capacity to 200 cu ft per second from 50 cfs. The dam stores water for irrigation and municipal use.
Denver Expands Major DIA Artery to Address Growth
Work on Peña Boulevard aims to improve traffic flows in and out of Denver International Airport.
Image courtesy FlatironDragados
A $52-million Peña Boulevard Phase 1B project tackles growth and safety challenges for the sole thoroughfare entering and leaving Denver International Airport. As the facility approaches 100 million annual travelers, upgrades on Peña and the intersecting Jackson Gap Street will improve driving efficiency, according to a statement from FlatironDragados, the project’s contractor. Teams are building a diverging diamond interchange where the boulevard and Jackson Gap meet to keep traffic moving. They also are widening the inbound and outbound Jackson Gap Bridges and have erected six “tub girders.” Temporary shoring towers are supporting the girders on the post-tension bridges. Peña outbound from the airport is also expanding to four lanes from three.
Three percent of the project work must come from apprentices in one of the first city and county of Denver contracts to have such a stipulation. Work on the Phase 1B project is expected to be complete in 2026.
