In January the new parking garage was cut from the billion dollar expansion of terminal B at our Sacramento Airport.  Tomorrow when the Sacramento Board of Supervisors meets they will have to decide to either cut the in-terminal hotel from the plans or possibly postpone building the structure until better financing is available, unless they can find a developer to partner in building the hotel.  In these economic times it’s highly unlikely that will happen by tomorrow.  Changing the plans could be tricky and might lead to abandoning the in-terminal concept and building a structure on airport property near I-5.  If the in-terminal hotel is abandoned the project would lose some of its wow factor, because having the hotel with access to the terminal is an unbelievable convenience.  With the in-terminal hotel guests could get to their gate in just three minutes without even a taxi ride.  That would almost be worth an overnight stay at the hotel just so you wouldn’t have to have that rush to the airport, especially if you had one of those 6:00AM flights.

With this expansion project at the airport called “The Big Build” we may not get a new parking garage or an in-terminal hotel, but as of this time I haven’t heard of plans to chop the ”Big Red Rabbit” from the budget.  Most of you probably know about the rabbit to which I’m referring, but if not click on this link to see the post from October, 2008, about the ”Giant Red Rabbit Hopping Toward Sacramento Airport“.  We may sacrifice extra parking and convenient hotels, but we still have our art.  No sir, nobody can say Sacramento is culturally deprived, even if that art is created by some out-of-towner and looks like a giant red rabbit.  Maybe we could combine plans for the hotel and the giant rabbit.  You know, just scale back a little on the hotel and have a few bunny bungalows over by the “Giant Red Rabbit” in Terminal B. 

Sacramento Airport Expansion Project