NEOtrans blog
Ken Prendergast
16 May 2026
Mayor Justin Bibb announced a $1.6 billion plan to construct the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport’s Terminal Modernization Development Program (TDMP).
The program is complex, requiring large land uses to be moved around, demolished and constructed within a finite space.
The first step in that motion puzzle is the construction of a $22.5 million parking lot next to the vacant Concourse D...will be repurposed so it can accommodate 1,622 parked vehicles in what will be called the Gold Lot.
That second step..is to construct a 6,000-space parking garage and ground transportation center on the current site of the 1,080-space Orange Lot which will be closed after the new Gold Lot opens. Orange Lot will first be dug up for a new subway station for the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority’s (GCRTA) Red Line.
Once the new parking deck and ground transportation center are built, the existing, 4,000-space Smart Garage and its terminal walkway will be demolished. In their place will be new airport roadways and the new passenger terminal headhouse...
Cleveland Airport project’s first two steps take off – NEOtrans - 16 May 2026
