Lakewood projects · 2026
Projects
Every capital project in the City of Lakewood’s five-year capital plan, fund by fund, with its 2026 appropriation. Only 2026 is appropriated; the forecast years are kept apart from it. Below the plan is what the State of Colorado’s own schedules place in the city, a different government’s money, kept apart. Each project opens its own page.
Capital projects
FACTThis is not a “major projects” shortlist. It is every project the plan publishes — all 67 of them, across the 10 funds the city organizes the plan by. Every category reconciles to the city’s own printed subtotal and every fund to its own printed total, on all six columns, and the whole chapter is read a second time against its own project detail sheets, in both directions, before a row of it appears here.
2026 capital appropriations CALC
$76.1M
Exactly $76,102,156. The plan’s 10 funds added together, each one its own printed total. The book prints no total across them, so this figure is ours and is labeled as ours wherever it appears. It is capital only — not the city’s budget, which is the dashboard’s headline.
Years appropriated FACT
1 of 5
The plan runs to 2030 and 2026 is the only year of it that has been appropriated. The city says so itself: the later figures “are forecasts and will not be appropriated until subsequent budgets.” They are published below as forecasts and nowhere as money.
Projects published CALC
67
Distinct projects in the plan’s own tables, counted. No publisher states this number. 46 carry a 2026 appropriation; the other 21 are published with money in an earlier or a later year and nothing in 2026.
Spent so far, by project NOT PUBLISHED
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The city publishes no spending by project. Every money column in this chapter is a budget column — a revised budget, an appropriation, or a forecast. There is no spend to date, no encumbrance and no prior-year actual against a named project. No estimate is offered, because a plausible one would be indistinguishable from a published figure.
Six columns, and only one of them is money the city voted for
The plan prints six money columns for every project. They are six different quantities, and this page never adds one to another or shows one under the other’s name. Each figure below is the ten funds added together for that column — ours, not the city’s, exactly like the dashboard’s capital tile.
| Column | What it is | All 10 funds CALC |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 Revised | A third quantity, in the book’s own words: 2024 carryforwards, the 2025 original budget, and 2025 adjustments. Not an appropriation for 2026 and not comparable with one. | $92,954,516 |
| 2026 | The appropriation. The city’s own words: new appropriations reviewed and approved by city management. This is the one column on this page that is money the city has committed. | $76,102,156 |
| 2027 | A forecast, not an appropriation. The city’s own words: it “will not be appropriated until subsequent budgets.” | $41,062,529 |
| 2028 | A forecast, not an appropriation. | $34,105,040 |
| 2029 | A forecast, not an appropriation. | $33,823,644 |
| 2030 | A forecast, not an appropriation. | $37,062,087 |
There is deliberately no total row on this table. Adding a revised budget to an appropriation to four forecasts would produce a number that means nothing at all, and it is the number this shape of table most invites. Every other figure on this page is the 2026 row.
Where the 2026 appropriation goes, by fund
The city organizes the plan by funding source, because each fund has its own revenue and its own rules about what it may be spent on. Every figure below is that fund’s 2026 appropriation as the city printed it.
| Fund | Project-fund pairs | 2026 appropriation |
|---|---|---|
| Capital Improvement Fund | 20 | $24,003,304 |
| Conservation Trust Fund | 7 | $2,145,000 |
| Open Space Fund | 14 | $943,000 |
| Equipment Replacement Fund | 6 | $5,350,000 |
| Golf Course Enterprise Fund | 8 | $8,221,546 |
| Sewer Enterprise Fund | 3 | $1,830,000 |
| Stormwater Enterprise | 2 | $9,145,000 |
| Water Enterprise | 1 | $0 |
| TABOR Fund | 19 | $15,308,872 |
| GRANT Fund | 9 | $9,155,434 |
| All 10 funds CALC | 89 | $76,102,156 |
The Water Enterprise row is a published $0, not a missing figure. The plan carries one Water Enterprise project and prints a dash against its 2026 column, having $709,406 in the revised 2025 budget. A dash the publisher printed is a nought, and it is shown as one. The total row is a CALC — the city prints a total for each fund and none across them.
This column counts project-fund pairs, not projects. A project that more than one fund pays for is counted once under each of them, so the column adds to 89 pairs while the plan holds 67 distinct projects. The fund filter on the table below counts only the projects one fund pays for alone, so its counts run lower than this column does.
Every project in the plan, and which fund pays for it
In alphabetical order, which is the plan’s own order inside each of its categories. The table opens in that order, not by size — the city publishes no ranking, so none is the default; you can sort it any way you like. Where a project draws on more than one fund every fund is named with its own share. A $0 here is a project the plan publishes with nothing appropriated to it in 2026.
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| Addenbrooke Park | Open Space Fund | $0 |
| Annual Core Technology Infrastructure Replacement | Equipment Replacement Fund | $891,000 |
| Automatic Water Meter Reading Replacement | Water Enterprise | $0 |
| Bear Creek Greenbelt Improvements | Open Space Fund $0 · TABOR Fund $85,000 | $85,000 |
| Bear Creek Lake Park Improvements | Open Space Fund $0 · TABOR Fund $100,000 | $100,000 |
| Belmar Park Improvements | Open Space Fund | $125,000 |
| Bike Plan Implementation | Capital Improvement Fund | $200,000 |
| Bikepaths and Sidewalks | Capital Improvement Fund $1,000,000 · TABOR Fund $50,000 | $1,050,000 |
| Carmody Playground Surfacing | TABOR Fund | $350,000 |
| Carmody Recreation Center Improvements | Conservation Trust Fund $0 · Open Space Fund $0 · TABOR Fund $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 |
| City Entry Sign Maintenance | Capital Improvement Fund | $14,000 |
| Civic Center Roof and Mechanical Replacement | Capital Improvement Fund | $2,300,000 |
| Colfax Pedestrian Safety & Infrastructure Improvements | Capital Improvement Fund $0 · Sewer Enterprise Fund $1,000,000 · TABOR Fund $8,284,872 · GRANT Fund $7,913,702 · General Fund $275,000 — outside the plan’s funds and not in this total | $17,198,574 |
| Employee Technology Equipment | Equipment Replacement Fund | $509,000 |
| Facility Upkeep & Repairs (FUR) | Capital Improvement Fund | $1,000,000 |
| FIO Capital Projects | Capital Improvement Fund | $0 |
| Fox Hollow & Homestead Golf Course Maintenance & Improvements | Golf Course Enterprise Fund | $580,000 |
| Fox Hollow and Homestead Club House Improvements | Golf Course Enterprise Fund | $200,000 |
| Fox Hollow and Homestead Debt Service | Golf Course Enterprise Fund | $641,546 |
| Fox Hollow Bunker Modifications | Golf Course Enterprise Fund | $0 |
| Fox Hollow Club House Construction Drawings | Golf Course Enterprise Fund | $0 |
| Fox Hollow Club House Renovation | Golf Course Enterprise Fund | $6,000,000 |
| Golf Maintenance Equipment | Golf Course Enterprise Fund | $300,000 |
| Golf Maintenance Tractor Storage Building | Golf Course Enterprise Fund | $500,000 |
| Graham Park | TABOR Fund | $250,000 |
| Heritage Lakewood Belmar Park | Open Space Fund | $50,000 |
| IT Infrastructure Sustainability Program | Equipment Replacement Fund | $0 |
| Lakewood Cultural Center | Open Space Fund $0 · TABOR Fund $166,000 | $166,000 |
| Lakewood Maintenance Campus Expansion | Capital Improvement Fund | $0 |
| Land/Park Acquisition | Conservation Trust Fund $500,000 · TABOR Fund $500,000 | $1,000,000 |
| Local Drainage Projects | Stormwater Enterprise | $1,000,000 |
| Major Drainageway Improvements | Stormwater Enterprise | $8,145,000 |
| Morse Park Pool Design | TABOR Fund | $200,000 |
| Navigation Center Renovation | GRANT Fund | $0 |
| Neighborhood Participation Program | Capital Improvement Fund $60,000 · Open Space Fund $120,000 | $180,000 |
| Park Infrastructure | Conservation Trust Fund | $125,000 |
| Pavement Marking and Signs | Capital Improvement Fund | $252,165 |
| Peak View Park | TABOR Fund | $0 |
| Playground Replacement | Conservation Trust Fund $120,000 · Open Space Fund $80,000 | $200,000 |
| Porter Park | TABOR Fund $2,500,000 · GRANT Fund $449,919 | $2,949,919 |
| Public Safety Car Radio Replacement Project | Equipment Replacement Fund | $750,000 |
| Quail Park | TABOR Fund | $0 |
| Ray Ross Splash Pad | Open Space Fund | $0 |
| Recreation Aquatics Maintenance and Repairs Fund | Conservation Trust Fund | $200,000 |
| Recreation Center Fitness Equipment Replacement | Equipment Replacement Fund | $100,000 |
| Revenue Sharing Agreements | Capital Improvement Fund | $2,095,139 |
| Sewer Lining | Sewer Enterprise Fund | $430,000 |
| Sewer Utility Capital Projects | Sewer Enterprise Fund | $400,000 |
| Sheridan Blvd Sidewalk | TABOR Fund $0 · GRANT Fund $0 | $0 |
| Site & Facility Improvements | Conservation Trust Fund $1,200,000 · Open Space Fund $568,000 · TABOR Fund $123,000 | $1,891,000 |
| Stober Elementary Sidewalk | TABOR Fund $200,000 · GRANT Fund $791,813 | $991,813 |
| Street Resurfacing/Concrete Rehabilitation | Capital Improvement Fund | $8,000,000 |
| Traffic Safety Improvements | Capital Improvement Fund | $582,000 |
| Traffic Signal Replacements | Capital Improvement Fund $700,000 · TABOR Fund $0 | $700,000 |
| Two Creeks Park Development | Open Space Fund $0 · GRANT Fund $0 | $0 |
| US6 & Wadsworth Art & Enhancement | Capital Improvement Fund | $0 |
| US6 & Wadsworth project contribution | Capital Improvement Fund | $1,000,000 |
| Vehicle Replacement | Capital Improvement Fund | $1,800,000 |
| Vehicle Replacement (chargebacks) | Equipment Replacement Fund | $3,100,000 |
| W-Line Bridge at 6th Ave Lighting Project | Capital Improvement Fund | $0 |
| Wadsworth Blvd at Morrison Road | GRANT Fund | $0 |
| Wadsworth Blvd West Side | TABOR Fund $0 · GRANT Fund $0 | $0 |
| Washington Heights Improvements | Open Space Fund | $0 |
| Water Utility Total Service Conversion Capital Improvement Program | Capital Improvement Fund | $5,000,000 |
| Whitlock Recreation Center Improvements | Conservation Trust Fund | $0 |
| Whitlock Solar | Capital Improvement Fund $0 · GRANT Fund $0 | $0 |
| Wright Street Park Renovations | Open Space Fund $0 · TABOR Fund $0 | $0 |
No project matches those filters. Remove a filter above, or select Clear filters to see every project.
All 67 projects CALC — $76,102,156 in 2026 appropriations. The city prints a total for each fund and none across them.
Where these figures come from, and what reading them twice found
2026 Adopted Budget book — Capital Improvement and Preservation Plan, published by the City of Lakewood and named on the methodology page — chapter pages 277 to 317. The chapter carries the same tables twice: a summary for each fund, and a detail sheet for each project. Both are read, and every amount is matched between them in both directions, because walking one table can only ever find what is in it. Three disagreements survive that match, and each one is published here rather than quietly resolved.
- The two tables put the same two amounts under opposite names. The fund summaries call Vehicle Replacement the Capital Improvement Fund’s and the detail sheet calls it Vehicle Replacement (chargebacks); for the Equipment Replacement Fund the two names are swapped the other way. No dollar moves either way. The summaries’ naming is used here, because the detail sheet’s own explanation says chargebacks fund the enterprise programs — which is the Equipment Replacement Fund.
- One row in the plan has no project sheet, and it is not a project. Fox Hollow and Homestead Debt Service is $641,546 of scheduled repayment in the Golf Course Enterprise Fund. A repayment has no location and nothing to build, so the chapter publishes no detail sheet for it. It stays in the fund total, because the city put it there.
- A project sheet can name money the plan’s own fund tables do not carry. Colfax Pedestrian Safety & Infrastructure Improvements draws $275,000 from the General Fund in 2026, and the General Fund is not one of the plan’s 10 capital funds. That money is outside every total on this page and is named on the row rather than added to it, so the parts here still reach the whole they claim.
State projects in Lakewood
FACTWhy nothing here is the same answer as a county-wide search
Neither state document publishes an address, a county or a coordinate, so placing these projects is our claim — and it is a claim about a town, not a county. A county is not a city. Filtering by county would have put a neighboring town’s project under this city’s name, and every figure in it would have been real, which is what would have made it hard to notice.