ST. LOUIS — A team led by St. Louis-based HOK has been picked for the main design contract for the planned $2.8 billion revamp of St. Louis Lambert International Airport.
Airport Director Rhonda Hamm-Niebreugge said Thursday that the HOK-led team was chosen over two other finalists by the city Board of Public Service. Seven teams of companies had submitted proposals, she said.
She said a contract and price will now be negotiated with airport officials.
The team selected includes at least 20 companies, including David Mason Architects of St. Louis and Chicago-based EXP. She said there also will be about 20 subcontracts.
She announced the selection at a teleconference meeting of the city Airport Commission.
The planned Lambert overhaul calls for the airport's two passenger terminals to be consolidated into one facility and other major changes.
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Meanwhile, Hamm-Niebruegge has held off asking the commission to vote on a proposal to let an online car-sharing service use a garage just outside one of Lambert's two existing terminals. The panel isn't scheduled to meet again until early March.
Some commission members at a meeting last month had said the plan would be unfair to traditional car rental firms whose customers have to take shuttle buses to their own off-site facilities.
"I'm just trying to find a path forward that's best for the airport" and win support from "most everybody" on the commission, Hamm-Niebruegge said in an interview Thursday.
Under the proposed contract with the online platform, Turo Inc., Turo customers could pick up vehicles from the garage outside Terminal 1 or at three Lambert lots accessible by airport shuttles. People use Turo to rent vehicles from private owners.
In return, Turo would pay Lambert 10% of gross revenues from rental transactions involving vehicle pickups and dropoffs at the airport.
Turo wouldn't have reserved spots at Lambert, just the authority to legally operate there. Turo renters have been using Lambert for several years without paying fees to the airport and the airport says it has no way of tracking them.
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