The 10-year, 41-acre Fox Park redevelopment project in Denver’s Globeville neighborhood is starting to take shape. When complete, the development will include a new World Trade Center, as well as a hotel, office and residential spaces and 14 hectares of parks and outdoor amenities. Saunders Construction is building the underground parking lot, with two connections to future underground parking structures for the WTC complex. Once completed, Saunders will begin work on the outdoor plaza area that will sit on top of the garage. The contractor demolished the former Denver Post shipping and receiving building and completed Phase 1 environmental cleanup and infrastructure work.
Interior deploys millions for western water systems
On March 17, the US Department of the Interior announced $889 million in investments for water infrastructure projects in six western states, including Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. The funding comes from the large spending and tax bill signed by President Trump in July 2025. It provides $1 billion through 2034 to restore and expand the capacity of existing federal water systems while expediting authorization for major projects. The allocation is substantial by the project’s standards, but it’s a fraction of what engineers say is needed. The funding includes $100 million to replace Utah’s Strawberry Highline Canal, an open conveyance that has supplied irrigation water to southern Utah County since 1913, with a closed pipe to reduce seepage losses and improve delivery efficiency. Wyoming’s $100 million goes to the Fort Laramie Channel Tunnels, where a July 2019 roof collapse in Tunnel No. 2 left the system operating below its design capacity of 1,500 cfs and running on emergency repairs. The Bureau of Reclamation approved the demolition and reconstruction of approximately 6,642 feet of tunnel along the 85.3-mile canal by 2025. In northern Idaho, $30 million will go to the Lewiston Orchards Irrigation District for a pump storage and conveyance project.
ICM and Gilmore install new baggage system at DIA
Industrial Constructors/Managers Inc. and Gilmore Construction are installing thousands of feet of new conveyor systems and eight makeup units on Concourse A at Denver Airport. The team will integrate and automate a baggage system as part of the expansion of Concourse A, from the Central Core to Module 10 West. When complete in 2027, the system will help DIA prepare to serve 100 million passengers annually by 2030.
