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O'Hare $800-million project to consolidate rental car garage slated for spring
By Jon Hilkevitch
Tribune reporter
12:05 PM CDT, August 23, 2013
Construction will begin in the spring on an $800-million project at O'Hare International Airport that will put all rental car companies under one roof as part of a new remote public parking garage and extend the light rail People Mover to the new facilities, officials said Friday.
The project, first announced during the Daley administration, now moves toward three years of construction as Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday announced final action on a $288-million federal loan.
The rest of the funding will come locally, including from airport bonds and an $8-a-day tax on car rentals at the airport that was imposed in 2010.
The new consolidated rental car and parking garage will be located on the site of economy parking lot F, which at $9 a day offers the least expensive parking at O'Hare. Parking lot F is at Zemke Boulevard and Mannheim Road.
The adjacent cell phone parking lot, which provides free parking for drivers waiting to pick up passengers at the airport, will be relocated this fall to Bessie Coleman Drive near I-190, city Aviation Commissioner Rosemarie Andolino said.
She said parking rates...
The $800-million project, scheduled to be completed in 2016, is expected to create
3,000 construction jobs and 100 permanent car rental and concessions-related jobs, officials said.
Officials also touted the expected benefits ...
The consolidated rental car-parking garage is also near the O'Hare Metra station served by the North Central Service line that runs between downtown Chicago and Antioch.
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