Sioux Falls Regional Airport Concourse Expansion

Joe Foss Field has been running a 1968 terminal through a passenger count it was never sized for. That ends in March 2027. A topping-out beam was signed on the airport’s new concourse on May 29, 2026, and the $70 million expansion is now closing in on enclosure.

Project Scope

The project adds roughly 70,000 square feet of concourse with five new gates, expanded hold rooms and modern passenger boarding bridges. Ground broke in September 2025. A Weitz | Journey joint venture is building it — The Weitz Company out of Des Moines paired with Sioux Falls-based Journey Construction. Mead & Hunt leads design with local firm Co-OP Architecture.

Beyond the gate count, the passenger-facing scope reads like a list of everything the old terminal lacked: larger restrooms, family restrooms with an adult changing station, a purpose-built mother’s room, a children’s play area, and a concessions layout redesigned so food service doesn’t dam up the walkway. The owner is the Sioux Falls Regional Airport Authority.

Why It Matters

Regional airports rarely get a clean-sheet concourse. They get incremental patches until the gate count becomes the binding constraint on air service, and then the community discovers that airlines won’t add flights to a building with nowhere to park an aircraft. Sioux Falls hit that wall.

Five gates is a meaningful percentage increase for a field this size, and the boarding bridges matter more than they sound: they change which aircraft types can serve the market. The Weitz Company called the topping out “a testament to the strong partnership between project teams, designers, and trade partners,” which is the standard line, but the joint venture structure here is worth noting — a national ENR Top 400 contractor teamed with a local firm on a public airport job is a delivery model that keeps trade dollars in the region without giving up scale.

Completion is anticipated in March 2027.

Project Team & Details