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STARC: Undisrupting renovations with temporary walls for airports
Chaotic. Expensive. Time consuming. All things that come to mind when describing the airport experience for passengers. The same things come to mind when considering most temporary construction containment methods. Well, any other than STARC, that is. Our temporary reusable walls keep the dust, debris and disturbances far away from passengers and employees during airport -
2025-06-07
Website update: improved reports and maps on the way
We rarely talk about the website. But we wanted to comment on some improvements we’ve started making to one of the most popular features: Noise Reports. Speed Long story, short, we figured out a way to make the reports run very fast! This has been really frustrating. They took forever to run and sometimes just -
2025-06-07
How to find Sea-Tac’s new security checkpoint and not get lost
By Nicholas Deshais Seattle Times staff reporter Seattle-Tacoma International Airport’s new security checkpoint opened Friday, but travelers can be forgiven for wondering where, exactly, it is. In short, the new Checkpoint 1 is downstairs on the baggage claim level, below a hanging replica of a historic aircraft, the Rutan Voyager, the first to fly around the -
2025-06-05
Net Zero 2031 | Massport
Environment A deepening crisis demands an immediate response. And a commitment to continue improvement. Leading the Way Forward As a climate action leader in aviation and maritime, Massport aims to achieve Net Zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2031, our 75th anniversary. Our Roadmap to Net Zero targets all emissions from Massport-controlled sources through sustainable -
2025-06-02
Editorial: Chicago didn’t ruin Boeing, but the company paid a price for moving out of Seattle.
By The Editorial Board | Chicago Tribune Seattle and Boeing were together for decades until Chicago came along. But after the company moved its headquarters from a cloudy city to a windy one, it struggled. Was it us? The deep-dish pizza and Italian beef? The ongoing wait for another Super Bowl title? As this iconic aerospace giant -
2025-05-30
U.S. Supreme Court Narrows NEPA Review
Court removes “indirect effects” requirement The U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision, on May 29, 2025, narrowing the scope of environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). In Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, the Court reversed in part the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ finding that the Surface Transportation -
2025-05-28
Paine Field Master Plan Presentation to CAWG
This will never be the second airport We are re-posting this after a Port of Seattle lobbyist’s recent public comments on their support of a ‘second airport‘ which, once again, stirred vain hopes that Paine Field might provide some ‘relief’ to SEA. That is not what anyone in the room was saying. A presentation to -
2025-05-28
Highline Forum Meeting Transcript
Theme: 2024 StART Annual Report and Economic Development Grants Highline Forum Agenda May 28, 2025 Burien City Hall, 2:30pm Host Update: City of Burien Mayor Kevin Schilling (Burien): We’ve been very focused over the last years on our comprehensive plan – how we distribute resources, where we are building out capacity for transit, for transportation, -
2025-05-28
Highline Forum May 28, 2025 (Burien City Hall)
2024 StART Annual Report, Economic Development Partnership Grant Program, City of Burien presentation. -
2025-05-27
Port of Seattle Commission Meeting Transcript
Emily Ho: Thank you, Lawrence. Good afternoon, commissioners. Good afternoon, executive director Metrick. My name is Emily Ho. I am the program manager for community engagement and training for the diversity and contracting team. I will just be providing a very high level overview of the program in 2024. The goal of the program is