Officials preview new airport terminal and plans to open in early 2019
 

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With skylights and walls of windows pouring light into a sea of concrete, city officials announced construction of a massive new terminal to replace the Louis Armstrong International Airport is ?65-70 percent complete."

The nearly $1 billion project*will host 35 gates and several locally based restaurants, concessions, newsstands and gift shops, including*Angelo Brocato, Emeril?s, Dirty Coast, Fleurty Girl, Mondo, Mopho, The Munch Factory, Pulp + Grind, PJ?s and the Preservation Hall Foundation.

New Orleans and Jefferson Parish officials celebrated the terminal construction progress April 25, where*Mayor Mitch Landrieu called the project the "cornerstone" of the New Orleans area's future and "the*gateway of the south" serving as a major economic driver for the area when it opens in spring 2019.

"You haven?t seen a facility like this in the city of New Orleans and there won?t be like one like this in the country," he said.
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