The renovation of Denver International Airport is major, not only in terms of cost but also in impact, as anyone who has been through the airport in the past year can attest. While travelers have been maneuvering that mess, reporter Jon Murray has been sifting through hundreds of pages of claims to figure out what went wrong in the split with the first set of contractors.
When DIA leaders and the city fired Great Hall Partners in August, they pointed to the contractors’ projections that the project was going to go hundreds of millions of dollars over budget and be finished years late. In the latest in a series of watchdog stories that he has written about the project since its inception, Murray lays out the extensive time DIA officials spent dithering over details from bathroom fixtures to the location of check-in kiosks.
This isn’t merely an exercise in finger-pointing. It matters because, as the renovation relaunches, itap even more important that the airport get it right this time.
— Cindi Andrews, Denver Post politics editor
Fired Denver airport contractors’ claims raise questions about oversight as massive project restarts
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