Granseur Dick, ILMâs facilities director, stands in the atrium of the new airport concourse, which is now under construction. (Photo by Michael Cline Spencer) As ILM begins recovering flights and travelers lost because of the COVID-19 pandemic, projects are progressing that will change the airport’s look and feel in coming years.
Currently, Monteith Construction Corp., Wilmington International Airport’s (ILM) contractor for its $61 million terminal expansion and renovation project, is working on a building expansion with a large steel and glass atrium, adding about 78,000 square feet to the airport.
The work is part of the project’s final phase, expected to be complete at the end of 2022.
Greg Hall’s steel “Laurel Live Oak” sculpture and Jill Webb’s “Loggerhead Labyrinth” floor design will be part of the new terminal at ILM. (Port City Daily/Courtesy of ILM)
WILMINGTON As travelers hustle through Wilmington International Airport’s new terminal expansion, they’ll also be welcomed by the talent of local artists, thanks to its partnership with the Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County. Three new installations will go up in July 2021, created by muralist Jill Webb, as well as sculptors Paul Hill, Greg Hall and Jeff Hackney.
The ILM terminal expansion began in November 2019, though art work proposal requests launched in June 2020 and asked artists to capture the spirit of coastal North Carolina. The arts council put a call out to state, regional, national and international sculpture organizations, and marketed it to reach artists across the Southeast Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro, Virginia Beach, Richmond, Charleston, and Columbia. By the Au