Image courtesy of Mobile Airport Authority
By NOLAN POINTER
MOBILE, Ala. – The new Mobile International Airport in downtown Mobile is one of the largest vertical construction projects underway in Alabama.
This $252 million project, the construction of which began in May 2024, is relocating the city’s main commercial airport from its current location to the downtown area. The project is expected to wrap in November.
Before its planned move to the Brookley Aeroplex, the main commercial airport for Mobile was Mobile Regional Airport, located about 25 miles west of downtown Mobile. The current airport site, Brookley Field, is being redeveloped into a new international airport terminal, and commercial passenger services will move there from the more distant Mobile Regional Airport.
Tupelo, Miss.-based JESCO, Inc., part of Yates Companies, Inc., is joined by Volkert Inc. as the construction team.
The new terminal will initially have five gates but is designed to expand to a total of 12 gates. A 1,250-vehicle parking deck is also part of the build.