First announced in December 2021, the privately-funded, $9.5 billion New Terminal One project at JFK International Airport officially broke ground earlier this month. 

The 2.4-million-square-foot international terminal will become JFK’s largest upon completion. Construction will occur in phases on the sites of the current Terminals 1 and 2 as well as the former Terminal 3. 

A group of firms, including Carlyle, JLC Infrastructure, and Ullico, are among the private partners behind the undertaking, which bills Gensler in charge of design and AECOM Tishman as the general contractor. 

"We're doing it better, because right now you go through a place like Penn Station and the former LaGuardia and the former airports, you just wanted to look down. You shuffled along, you know, just kind of in the masses. You didn't have any reason to feel optimistic, to put a smile on your face," New York Governor Kathy Hochul remarked on the milestone. "Now, when you come through our airports, you see beautiful artwork that lifts the spirit, lifts the soul. You see the light coming in from the heavens. It is a transformative, positive, very human experience that has been long denied because people before us didn't have the vision that we have today."

The arrivals and departures hall and the first of the new gates are expected to complete in 2026.