{"id":34630,"date":"2018-05-18T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/were-on-schedule-says-developer-of-paine-field-passenger-terminal\/"},"modified":"2018-05-18T01:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T08:30:00","slug":"were-on-schedule-says-developer-of-paine-field-passenger-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/were-on-schedule-says-developer-of-paine-field-passenger-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We’re on schedule,’ says developer of Paine Field passenger terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t

EVERETT — From outside the Paine Field office of Propeller Airports, you can see the steel girders that will form the walls and roof of the new passenger terminal.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

You can hear the growl of metal-cutting saws. You can see and hear construction workers atop what will be the terminal entrance holler down to co-workers on the ground.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

“Next week, the glass and the Sheetrock goes in,” said Brett Smith, CEO of Propeller Airports, the developer of the terminal.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

“We’re on schedule,” he said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Smith gave a tour Thursday of the site to show the progress. It’s a hub of activity. Propeller is preparing to take possession of the building in July to begin work on the interior, which will include a “local, Seattle-area restaurant” and a coffee bar, Smith said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

The for-profit company is investing about $40 million to build the two-gate terminal. By comparison, Sea-Tac Airport, has 80 gates.<\/p>\n

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Brett Smith, CEO of Propeller Airports, at the company’s Paine Field office in Everett. (Janice Podsada \/ The Herald)<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t

Alaska Airlines, United Airlines and Southwest Airlines together are expected to offer up to 24 daily departures from Everett. Propeller expects up to 1,700 passenger boardings per day, Smith said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

You won’t find the airport’s three-letter code, PAE, on any airline website yet, but Smith promised that “the airlines will be ready to go in September.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

The terminal will have a hotel-like waiting area with a fireplace, plush seating and free high-speed internet. Smith expects it to serve about 700,000 people a year.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

The passenger terminal will feature a bronze statue of 2nd Lt. Topliff Olin Paine, an airmail and Army Air Corps pilot for whom the airport is named. The sculpture is being created by Dillon Works, a Mukilteo fabrication company, Smith said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Three years ago, Propeller secured a 50-year agreement with Snohomish County to build and operate the nearly 30,000 square-foot terminal.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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This story was first published in the Everett Herald<\/a>. Reach Janice Podsada at jpodsada@heraldnet.com, or 425-339-3097.<\/p>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alaska, United and Southwest are expected to begin service from Everett in September. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":603,"featured_media":34631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34630"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}