About the Project

The multi-phase modernization of the MEM aging terminal facilities will:

  • Allow MEM to meet future demand and serve the Region with a world-class facility for decades to come

  • Bring all facilities up to current seismic resiliency standards

  • Improve the traveler experience through a modernized, ADA-comfortable, and operationally flexible facility

  • Preserve the character of the existing terminal architecture

  • Minimize MEM’s impact on the environment and support a clean energy future

  • Promote efficiency and competition through common-use facilities

  • Improve job opportunities for underserved communities

Phase 1

Modernize and consolidate all gate operations onto one concourse

The modernized concourse will be seismically resilient and feature common-use equipment, more natural light, more room to move, new retail and restaurant options, and new amenities to enhance the passenger experience.

The TMSP project will seismically protect the existing terminal, while maintaining the architectural character, including:

  • Expand the face of the building

  • Reconfigure vertical circulation

  • Reconfigure the ticket lobby

  • Construct a modern Central Baggage Inspection System (CBIS)

  • Expand and modernize Security Screening Checkpoints

  • Expand bag claim

The upper-level upgrades will:

  • Expand building to the north into the roadway to garner more space in terminal

  • Move vertical circulation to face of building

  • Create a single security checkpoint versus two (expanded queue zone)

  • Shift ticket counters to A and C sides of lobby

  • Open up area under mezzanines

  • Create opportunity for remote bag drop and self-ticketing areas on either side of security

  • Create a single exit from concourse to bag claim/ticket lobby

The lower-level upgrades will:

  • Expand baggage claim with two new carousels

  • Feature a Central Baggage Inspection System (CBIS) on A side

  • Enhance bag make-up

  • Create an Employee Screening Checkpoint

  • Preserve C side for future FIS

  • Allow FIS bag belt to be used for domestic operations (swing belt)