Progress at airport

Construction of the Midfield Terminal Complex at Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers is 35 percent complete.

Foundation work for the terminal, parking garage and upper-level roadway has been finished; the second-level terminal floor is 85 percent in place; and the third-level deck is being poured. Precast-concrete panels are being installed along the front of the building.

Approximately 60 columns for the parking garage have been poured, forming of the garage deck has started and work on underground utilities within the garage has passed the halfway point.

Work to extend Ben Hill Griffin Parkway/Treeline Avenue, to provide the entrance to the new terminal between Daniels Parkway and Alico Road, is 50 percent complete.

An average of 700 people are at work on the project every day, and construction activity on the $438 million project is on schedule. When the new terminal building opens in 2005, the airport's existing terminal, seen upper right, will be closed.