The airport authority hopes to have a detailed plan on the table Wednesday for a parking garage at Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport.
The Gulfport-Biloxi Regional Airport Authority held a workshop Monday and another is scheduled for today to work out final plans for the parking garage.
Plans call for a covered garage to handle 800 vehicles. There would also be surface parking that could handle 700 more vehicles, said Bruce Frallic, director of the airport.
A key issue right now is where to put parking spaces that will be displaced while the garage and the surface parking is built over two years.
Frallic said authority members Monday discussed the pros and cons of various locations for temporary spaces. They also got a preliminary cost estimate for the garage, which is above what they originally expected.
"We're trying to make decisions on what we want to include and exclude," Frallic said about the garage, which will be built and operated by Republic Parking Systems on land leased from the airport.
"There are still a lot of questions about what things we're actually going to do and things we will not do," he said.
The most pressing matter is determining where to put temporary parking for between 400 and 500 vehicles that will be displaced by the construction.
Also to be decided is where to put temporary employee parking spaces. It's a matter of phasing it all in so as not to disrupt airport activities, Frallic said.
He said today's workshop will also focus on the garage and parking, and he said he hopes they will have a final plan at Wednesday's regular meeting.
The airport is in the midst of several improvement projects, including an expansion to the terminal and relocating general aviation.
