Following a record-breaking passenger count last year, BWI Airport is getting closer to completing projects that will give millions of travelers each year more space to eat and lounge.

Relatively newer arrivals include Rita’s Italian Ice, which marks the dessert chain’s first locale inside an airport ... BWI completed a 55,000-square-foot, $48 million extension to Concourse ...

WBI's $450 million A/B concourse connector project is expected to open to the public as soon as December, Ricky Smith, the airport's CEO, said during a talk at the BWI Business Partnership on Jan. 22.