To increase capacity to meet growing demand, ILM recently expanded the terminal. ILM now needs to make other improvements by realigning roads, improving the terminal curb-front, and expanding parking. We look forward to upgrading the other infrastructure at ILM to better serve our increasing number of passengers. We appreciate your patience throughout the construction and look forward to providing you with better parking and traffic flow as well as a more efficient and convenient pick-up and drop-off experience.
📣 ILM’s temporary curb-front is open! 🚗
✅ Dropping off? Head to the new temporary curb-front.
✅ Picking up? You can wait in the new cell phone lot and then swing by the new temporary curb-front when your passenger is ready.
ILM would like to thank everyone for their patience as the airport team works to make ILM even better!
🚸 Follow signage, view the map directly below (with the new cell phone lot and temporary curbfront highlighted), and find more info about the project below.
“A map of the parking lot and surrounding roads of ILM airport. Parking Lots A, B, and C are marked on the map, and all three of them are in front of the curbfront drop-off and pick-up area. Traveling along 23rd Street, you can either turn right into the Cell Phone Lot or turn left into lots B or C. Going Straight or going through the Cell Phone lot leads to the entrance of lot A and to the pedestrian walkway for the passenger terminal. The road wraps around the back of the parking lot and returns back down 23rd Street. Gardner Road crosses 23rd Street before entering the airport area. Turning left from 23rd Street onto Gardner Road leads to Hewlett Drive and Hall Drive further down. Both Hewlett Drive and Hall Drive end at Task Drive, where the Shuttle Lot is available. Turning right from 23rd Street onto South Gardner Road leads directly to the side of the Passenger terminal, and is reserved for Deliveries and Emergency Access. From the back of the parking lots and turning right towards the end of Hewlett Drive is an unmarked road that leads to the Rental Cars parking lot.
Once complete, the future improvements occurring 2023-2027, include:
- Increased capacity and passenger access– ILM will extend the departure/arrivals curb, add a commercial drop-off curb (i.e. for taxis and ride-share services), and include canopies between the terminal and crosswalks to the parking area.
- Expanded parking– More parking will be added in surface parking lots and ILM will add covered parking spaces within the parking garage. There will also be a separate covered area for rental car pick-ups and returns.
- Replaced aging infrastructure– The existing curb front was built in 1989. The improvements will replace 202,300 SF of 35-year-old roadways/curb front with 275,000 SF of new infrastructure. Wow!
- Compliance with ADA and expanded accessibility for persons with disabilities
- Improved energy efficiency– The improvements will be designed to provide efficient material systems, such as high efficiency LED area lighting systems, resiliency of utility infrastructure, sustainable systems like solar, electrical vehicle, and more to meet passenger and airport operation needs.
View the Rendering of ILM’s Ongoing Improvements, Once Complete. Click the play button below to watch on YouTube.
Project History:
Phase 1 Complete!
Phase 1A of the new parking lot layout at ILM. There are three different colored sections, highlighting different areas of the construction. Area 1 is an extension of Airport Boulevard that wraps around the back of the parking lots (towards Hewett Drive). Area 2 adds two smaller parking lots towards the right side of the main terminal, and includes roads connecting them to Hewett Drive and the extension of Airport Boulevard build in Area 1. Area 3 adds an emergency access road that comes off Airport Boulevard that wraps around the outside of the existing parking lots to go directly to the airport terminal.
Revenue and Non Revenue Parking Spaces Phase 2
An outline of Phase 2 of the airport parking lot construction. This phase defines which parking spaces are for revenue and which are not. Lots A, B, C (both long and short term), D, and F are listed as being built for revenue. Combined, these lots supply 1,843 individual parking spots during the construction phase. Lots A, B, and D will be unavailable during this time. The Rental Cars parking lot, along with the March Lot and Cell Phone Lot are listed as non-revenue spaces. The Rental Cars lot will be unavailable during construction, and the three lots combined will have 228 parking spaces available during this time. During Phase 2, the long-term lot will be used for long-term, daily, and hourly parking; rental cars will remain in the March lot. Employee parking and hourly/short-term will have designates areas in the Phase 1B build out. Peak traffic days may require cars to be parked in the grassed overflow lots southeast of the economy and long-term lots.
Completion of Phase 2, Tentatively Fall 2026: Proposed Parking Development
Completion of the parking lot Phase 2 will be in Fall of 2026. There will be several lots for both revenue and non-revenue. The Long-Term Lot, which takes up the majority of the space, will hold 1,248 parking spots. Lot F, the Economy Lot, is on the opposite side of the Long-Term Lot from the airport terminal, and will have 602 parking spaces. The Premium Lot and and Parking Garage, which have 208 and 600 parking spaces respectively, are between the Long-Term Lot and the airport terminal. For the non-revenue spaces, the Rental Car Lot is not located on the map but does have 300 parking spaces. The March/Employee Lot will have 198 spaces, and is on the right side of the terminal. The Cell Phone Lot is also not marked on the map, but will have 30 available spaces. In total, there will be 2,658 parking spaces for revenue, and 528 non-revenue spaces.
Selected Architectural Style of Canopy and Terminal Curbfront
