Breaking Ground (and the Budget)
Denver International Airport officially broke ground in September 1989, but wasn’t opened until February 1995, which was 16 months behind schedule. The airport also blew past its initial budget by $2 billion, costing a total $4.8 billion (about $9.2 billion adjusted for inflation.) $2 billion is a wide margin to overshoot a budget by, so conspiracy theorists naturally began wondering what exactly that money could have been used for.
