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CDOTVasquez Boulevard Improvements: I-270 to 64th Avenue
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Vasquez Boulevard Improvements: I-270 to 64th Avenue

Lane, median, signal and intersection work on Vasquez Boulevard in Commerce City, the first of two scheduled construction packages (Adams County). Timeline Jul 2025–Jan 2027.

Money in FACT
Est. total cost
$10.9M
Result so far
● Underway

Timeline Jul 2025–Jan 2027

Paid so far FACT
$7,597,382.84, through September 2026

CDOT’s dashboard prints this for one contract, not for the whole project. Printed: $7,597,382.84. Who is being paid

FACT A 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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Latest public update

CDOT's project page prints a Construction Cost of $10.9 million for package 1 on Vasquez Boulevard, from mile point 293 to 293.7 in Commerce City, with work from July 2025 to January 2027. CDOT's September 2026 dashboard prints $7,597,382.84 paid to date and $4,824,095.39 remaining on a current contract value of $12,421,478.23. That is the one construction manager/general contractor contract the dashboard reports on, and its value and the page's construction cost are different figures that this site does not add or reconcile. CDOT's page says package 2 was expected to begin in early 2026 and package 3 is on hold until further funding is obtained.

Open questions for the state (2)
ANALYSIS
  • Package 3 is on hold until funding is found. What would it cost, and who would pay?
  • CDOT prints a $10.9 million construction cost and a $12,421,478.23 contract value. What does each cover?

Total cost and spending
Total project cost$10.9M

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

Paid to the contractor: $7,597,382.84 of $12,421,478.23 on the one contract CDOT publishes a dashboard for. FACT CDOT’s monthly dashboard prints what has been paid to that contract’s contractor to date, and the contract’s current value. Both are CDOT’s printed figures, not ours. They are payments on that one contract, not the project’s whole spend: anything paid outside it is in neither figure, and nobody publishes that. CDOT’s latest published dashboard: September 2026.

Pacing

Money paid against contract time used, from CDOT's monthly dashboards for September 2026, the latest in the record. CALC

  • Construction package 1 contract Paid 61.2% of the contract with 87.8% of its time used: 26.6 percentage points behind an even pace, $3.31M less.

An even pace is our baseline, not CDOT's plan. A gap is a question to ask, not a verdict, and it compares money with time, not with the work done.

See pacing month by month

Milestones (4)
  • Construction manager/general contractor awarded for pre-construction — November 2023
  • Construction package 1 began — July 2025
  • Package 1 under way — through January 2027
  • Package 2 start — to be determined

Who is being paid (1)
FACT
Funding sourceNot stated on CDOT's project page.
VendorContract / valuePaid to dateConfidence
WITHHELDCM/GC contract, Vasquez Boulevard (project 22922)$12,421,478.23 contractA
The money is published; the names are held. Each row below carries the contract value, what has been paid to date so far as it is published, and our confidence grade — the same figures as always, from the same official records. What is withheld is the vendor's name, the record link that names it, and the campaign-finance search that sat beside it. That is a deliberate decision taken pending legal review, not a figure we could not find: a blank cell would have said the opposite. What WITHHELD means

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