Seattle Airport Invests In Art

Mon., Dec. 11, 2000

Once construction is complete at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the airport will have spent more money on public art than any other agency in the state’s history.

The three phases of the airport’s expansion project are scheduled for completion in 2010. The $2.6 billion budget for the first phase includes $6 million for art.

By the time all construction is complete, the airport will have spent at least $12 million on new art. That’s six times what the airport has spent on art in the past 31 years.

Airport officials hope to boost tourism and make the airport a destination for locals instead of just a stop on a ride to another place.

The Seattle-Tacoma airport isn’t the only airport adding to its art collection.

The San Francisco International Airport tripled a $5million art collection while building a new terminal that opened Sunday. And new airports such as Denver International and Ronald Reagan Washington National in Washington, D.C., opened with extensive art collections.

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