Biden Gives a Shout Out to PIT’s New Terminal

President mentions Pittsburgh airport's billion-dollar plan during infrastructure proposal

By Bob Kerlik

Published April 2, 2021

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President Joe Biden announced a $2 trillion infrastructure plan as part of a visit to Pittsburgh on Wednesday and, along with it, offered a vote of confidence for a new terminal project at its airport.

Biden talked briefly with Allegheny County Airport Authority CEO Christina Cassotis after landing at Pittsburgh International Airport earlier in the day. In their quick exchange, she briefed him on the airport’s Terminal Modernization Program—a billion-dollar infrastructure plan for the region that is expected to create 5,500 direct construction jobs.

That clearly resonated with the president, enough for him to reference it later that day, including a call-out to Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald while rolling out the national infrastructure plan.

“I’ll begin with the heart of the plan: It modernizes transportation infrastructure—our roads, our bridges, our airports,” Biden said at a carpenters union training center in Pittsburgh. “I just left your airport. The director of the airport said, ‘We’re about to renovate the airport.’ Is that right, Mr. County Executive? ‘We’re going to renovate. We’re going to employ thousands of people.’”