Anyone who has crawled around Logan’s terminals in bumper-to-bumper traffic may soon get a different kind of ride. Yesterday, Massport rolled out a $4.1 billion, five-year capital plan that puts ground access at the center of its next big building spree, along with a hard pivot toward net-zero energy.
The agency told its board that roughly 40% of the total would go into roadwork, garages and curbside projects aimed at unclogging terminal traffic. Headliners in the package include a six-story, 2,100-space parking garage at Terminal E and a new vehicle bridge tying that terminal to the west garage, both designed to ease the chronic choke points between Terminals C and E.
As reported by State House News Service, Massport’s five-year, $4.1 billion “customer-focused” capital plan carves out roughly $1 billion for customer-satisfaction upgrades and about $315 million to push the authority toward net-zero emissions by 2031. The program is projected to support more than 24,500 full-time jobs, including about 8,500 directly tied to construction. “The ground transportation needs are immense; we are looking at the customer in anything we do,” Luciana Burdi, Massport’s chief infrastructure officer, told the board.
Board packet lists plan and financial slides
Massport’s packet for the Feb. 12 board meeting lists the FY26–FY30 Capital Investment Plan and the FY26–FY30 Capital Investment Financial Plan as information items, flagging projects that could later be reimbursed with bond proceeds. The materials, posted on the authority’s site ahead of the meeting, include slide decks and summaries prepared for board review. According to Massport, the documents are meant to guide project design and budgeting work over the coming months.
Big bets on ground access and parking
The plan channels about 40% of its $4.1 billion price tag into ground-transportation projects, calling out new roads to de-conflict traffic between Terminals C and E, the vehicle bridge to the west garage at Terminal E, and the six-story, 2,100-space Terminal E garage as top priorities. Solar installations and other on-site energy measures are also framed as central tools in Massport’s net-zero strategy. Those specifics were reported by State House News Service.
Financing, jobs and trade-offs
Financial slides presented to the board show Massport projecting net earnings approaching $2 billion through fiscal 2030, which the agency says could cover about half of the five-year program. To fund the rest, the packet outlines a proposed $500 million bump in borrowing. The same materials sketch out planned expense reductions of about $35 million a year, or roughly $175 million over five years, and note that operations generated approximately $60 million toward the plan in the first half of FY2026, according to Massport.
What comes next
Thursday’s presentation was billed as an information-only briefing. Staff told the board they will return with detailed project schedules, procurement strategies and construction timelines for the high-priority investments. For travelers and nearby residents, that translates to a multi-year buildout with periodic construction activity, shifting traffic patterns and evolving curbside setups as Massport moves ahead with its largest capital push in recent years.
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