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DPACapitol Complex Renovation, Phase 3/4
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Capitol Complex Renovation, Phase 3/4

Renovation & footprint reduction of the state legislative/office complex. Denver County. Timeline FY 2026-27 (multi-yr).

Money in FACT
Est. total cost
≈ $216.7M
Result so far
Underway. What this stage means

Underway. The main work on this project started. Money goes out as the work goes on.

The stages, in order

  1. Requested An agency asked. No money yet.
  2. Funded Money approved. Work still to start.
  3. Underway Work started. Money goes out. This project
  4. Complete Work complete.

Halted Work stopped before the end.

This stage is our reading of the sources at the foot of this page, last read 24 September 2026.

Timeline FY 2026-27 (multi-yr)

Still open PENDING
Spend to date

Colorado does not publish what it has spent on this project.

FACT B Honesty Framework The label says how we know the figure. The grade rates the source record, not the project. The grade rates the source record, not the project.

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The ≈ $216.7M is the whole project, and the document that states it is the Joint Budget Committee’s FY 2026-27 capital figure-setting document, page 15: “The total cost of the project is currently estimated at $216.7 million, with an unfunded $31.7 million General Fund cost.” The same page records $96.2M already appropriated from FY 2022-23 through FY 2025-26. The FY 2026-27 phase-3 request of $41.5M (cash funds) was recommended for denial by JBC staff and does not appear in the enacted Long Bill capital schedule; earlier phases continue, and the operating budget carries $16.8M/yr in Capitol Complex facilities maintenance.

Open questions for the state (1)
ANALYSIS
  • What annual operating savings does the footprint reduction target?

Total cost and spending
Total project cost≈ $216.7M

Total cost & funding are drawn from the official record(s) listed below.

Spend-to-date: not published. Colorado does not publish what it has spent on this project, so this field is left blank rather than estimated. TOPS, the state’s spending ledger, has no project field, so it cannot show what was spent on one project.

Budget to actual

Public records tie $88,898,708 of payments to this project. That is 92.4% of the $96,187,757 basis: appropriated to the project before FY 2026-27, all cash funds from the Capitol Complex Renovation Fund.

  • Documented $88,898,708 92.4% of the basis

Each link is graded by how sure the record is. The other $7,289,049 is unlinked. Some of it may be unspent, and some may be paid where no public record names this project.

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Milestones (3)
  • Phases 1–2 — prior years
  • Phase 3 — FY 2026-27
  • Phase 4 — FY 2028-29

Who is being paid (1)
FACT
Funding sourceCash funds; $15.8M in each of FY 2027-28 and FY 2028-29 out-years.
Political giving
Fransen Pittman ConstructionGeneral contractor — Capitol Annex renovation (phase 1)≈ $47M (Annex)PENDING Not published for this contract.BColorado Politics (Nov 2025)Search TRACER
Where this comes from: award announcements and project records from CDOT, FHWA, agencies and the legislature’s nonpartisan staff — each Record link opens the source. Paid-to-date shows only published figures (green = verified); everything else stays PENDING, because the state does not publish payments project by project. Political giving links open TRACER, the Secretary of State’s official campaign-finance database, where contribution records are searchable by name — contributions are legal and public, and a search link implies no wrongdoing by anyone.

Sources and receipts (2)

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