Mar Vista’s own City Councilman Bill Rosendahl recently showed off the major construction project that will become LAX Bradley West Terminal to a group of bloggers, including yours truly. It was an honor to have been chosen to see the project, and it was the ultimate insider tour.
We started out at the Flight Path Museum, which could easily be renamed the Stewardess Uniform Hall of Fame, as you can see from these photos, where Rosendahl explained that renovation and modernization of LAX will cost over $4 billion – all of it financed by the airlines and none of it City money, by the way – and will create over 40,000 jobs.
We then got a tour of the building in its raw state, which is incredibly impressive. The building is meant to evoke a sense of the waves crashing in from the Pacific Ocean, and will afford arriving International passengers a gorgeous view of Los Angeles because of the giant walls of glass, as opposed to the basement they are currently shuttled into after disembarking.
The building truly makes me want to travel abroad as much as possible so I can spend as much time there as I can.
I invite you to read my post about the LAX Bradley West Terminal on MomsLA for even more details.
Thanks for having me, Bill!
{Artist’s rendering of the finished Bradley West Terminal via Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA).}
