{"id":299424,"date":"2019-05-14T06:06:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T20:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=299424"},"modified":"2019-05-14T06:06:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T20:06:57","slug":"cpa-to-build-larger-commuter-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cpa-to-build-larger-commuter-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"CPA to build larger commuter terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_299426\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299426\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CPA-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299426\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-299426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo shows the Francisco C. Ada\/Saipan Interna-tional Airport\u2019s commuter terminal canopy after Super Typhoon Yutu\u2019s devastation last Oct. 24 and 25. The Commonwealth Ports  Authority is planning to demol-ish the terminal building and build a larger one. (Ferdie De La Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Commonwealth Ports Authority will demolish the existing commuter terminal building at the Francisco C. Ada\/Saipan International Airport, which Super Typhoon Yutu destroyed last year, and rebuild a new, larger one. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will break it down and rebuild,\u201d CPA executive director Christopher S. Tenorio said in an interview during a break at the CPA board meeting Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Under the CPA-funded project, the commuter terminal will be expanded to accom-modate a larger holding room, additional airline counters and check-in space, concession space, Customs Border Protection processing areas, and a larger baggage claim area. <\/p>\n<p>Hofschneider Engineering Corp. had estimated that it will cost $427,167 to repair the damaged terminal. <\/p>\n<p>The estimate did not include electrical and mechanical work required for the termi-nal, according to CPA. <\/p>\n<p>CPA\u2019s strategic plan did not indicate as to how much it will cost to build a new com-muter terminal building. <\/p>\n<p>Tenorio said CPA\u2019s engineering is in the process of doing a request for qualifications for architectural\/engineering design services for the demolition of the existing building and construction of a new one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot give you the timeline [to finish the project] but we are in the process of doing an RFQ. But we are trying to expedite everything,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The RFQ is expected to be advertised by next month.<\/p>\n<p>The commuter building, which handles inter-island flights between Saipan, Tinian, and Rota, sustained extensive damage when Yutu hit Saipan and Tinian last Oct. 24 and 25. A canopy that leads from the parking lot to the commuter building also collapsed. The terminal has been condemned due to unsafe conditions. <\/p>\n<p>Commuter tenants were then forced for a month to operate in tents placed in the parking lot near the commuter terminal. <\/p>\n<p>The tenants have been transferred to air-conditioned containers converted into of-fices, where they are still temporarily holding offices until now. The tenants include Star Marianas, Arctic Circle Air, Vertical Air, and LSG Sky Chefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Ports Authority will demolish the existing commuter terminal building at the Francisco C&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":299426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-299424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-cpa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}