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As
was the case last year, the largest construction
projects are a mix of roads, public works and corporate
expansions. And, like last year, the corporate expansions
involve more traditional industries such as tobacco
and credit cards than high technology startups following
the popping of the Internet and telecommunications
bubbles.
There’s
one big exception, albeit a sad one. Some $501 million
is being spent to renovate the Pentagon after a
jetliner hijacked by terrorists slammed into it
last Sept. 11. Much of the work is already completed
and the structure has been shored up to prevent
future attacks. Indeed, the death toll might have
been much higher had some renovations not been completed
just weeks before the attack.
Woodrow
Wilson Bridge
Northern Virginia & Maryland
$2.4 billion total
Virginia’s share is $927 million
Capital
One Financial Corp. expansion
Tysons Corner/Metro Richmond
$700 million
Springfield
Interchange
Fairfax County
$676 million
current phase is $179.4 million
U.S.
Route 58 Bypass
Clarkesville
$600 million
current phase is $100 million
Pentagon
Operation Phoenix repairs
Arlington
$501 million
current phase $400 million spent
Philip
Morris
Richmond
$350 million
Virginia
Route 895/Pocahontas Parkway Metro Richmond
$344 million
Richmond
International Airport
$327 million
current phase is $117 million
Smithsonian
National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Washington-Dulles International
Airport
$300 million
current phase $125 million
Town
Center
Virginia Beach
$300 million
current phase $167 million
Oyster
Point Town Center
Newport News
$300 million
$80 million current phase
Short
Pump Town Center
Henrico County
$250 million
Virginia
Route 288
Metro Richmond
$236 million
Madison
Heights Bypass
Lynchburg
$176 million
Interstate
81 widening
Christiansburg/Tenn. State line
$140 million
Washington-Dulles
International Airport
Dulles
$130 million
Williamsburg
Community Hospital
Williamsburg
$115 million
Obici
Hospital
Suffolk
$107 million
Stony
Point Fashion Park
Richmond
$100+ million
Port
Warwick
Newport News
$100 million
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