page_title: Pierre Regional Airport
section_title: New terminal building
hierarchical_section_title: Pierre Regional Airport / New terminal building
caption_attribution_description: English: A picture of an architectural model of the new Pierre, South Dakota airport that is being constructed in 2011-2012. The model was made by Archetype 3D, a company based in Louisville, Colorado, United States.
context_page_description: Pierre Regional Airport is a public airport three miles east of Pierre, in Hughes County, South Dakota.
  Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 15,983 passenger boardings in calendar year 2008, 13,692 in 2009 and 14,686 in 2010. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport.
context_section_description: A new terminal had been needed for many years, as the old terminal building was plagued by a number of problems, primarily space constraints. Construction on the new terminal began in late Spring, 2011 and completed in September, 2012.
  Denver-based Coover-Clark & Associates, Inc. designed the building and Kadrmas Lee & Jackson's Rapid City office handled the construction administration. Initially, a jet bridge was to be installed at the terminal, but airport officials decided to wait until a scheduled commercial airline could use the jet bridge, as Great Lakes Airlines aircraft serving the airport at the time were not jet bridge capable. Officials also waited because Pierre had been without scheduled passenger jet service operated with mainline aircraft for over 30 years. The new terminal building was designed with the space set aside for a loading bridge, so it required very little effort to install one when the time came.
  With the introduction of jet service by Aerodynamics, Inc. in 2016, the city began considering a jet bridge for the airport. In August 2017, the Pierre city commission awarded the job of making and installing a new jet-boarding bridge to Sharpe of Pierre for its bid of $716,500. The new jet bridge was installed at the airport on April 23, 2018. A federal grant covered nearly all the costs, with the state kicking in 5% and the city 5%, or about $45,000.
caption: The current airport terminal building opened on September 12, 2012, a 21,000 square foot facility built by Dean Kurtz Construction
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