The five-story facility covers 23 acres on a hillside just east of the airport. Moving rental cars o

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport's new rental-car facility opens this month. The five-story, $400 million facility tour master saddle bags is off-site and is expected to free up more parking in the airport garage and cut the number of shuttles near the terminal.
Tours were given on all levels of the new $400 million rental-car facility for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Starting May 17, shuttle buses will take customers on the five-minute trip from the airport to hub.
The five-story facility covers 23 acres on a hillside just east of the airport. Moving tour master saddle bags rental cars off-site gets them out of the airport's parking garage freeing up more parking and should ease traffic by cutting the number of shuttles near the terminal.
tour master saddle bags The Port of Seattle Commission voted to stop construction no fewer than four times since 1998, the year members chose the location, because of funding and other problems. The facility also prompted a new state law in 2005 that allowed tour master saddle bags the airport to collect a $6-per-day fee on rental cars. That fee will repay the 30-year bonds on the project, which relies on no local taxes.
Beneath them, more than 5,000 rental cars will be parked on four levels, accessible by a maze of one- and two-floor escalators. The environmentally friendly facility includes 22 carwashes that reclaim most of the water, and 48 vacuums and gas pumps.
"You don't do something like this without a whole lot of people pulling to make it happen," said Port Commission Chairwoman Gael Tarleton. "When everything looks bleak, and when you don't think it's going to happen, there's only one real thing that makes it happen, and that's partners."
Twelve rental companies have desks at the new facility. That leaves one Rent-a-Wreck that didn't participate. After next Thursday, the airport won't allow Rent-a-Wreck to drive its shuttles to the airport.