A $3.2 billion bridge over the Mobile River finally financed, a 52-mile Birmingham bypass priced at $6.19 billion and opening a phase at a time, two new prisons costing more than $2 billion together, and the first new State House in America in half a century — Alabama's public pipeline runs from Redstone Arsenal to the deepest container port on the Gulf.
*How to read the total: the sum of the published figures in the list below. Bases differ by project — most are total cost estimates, some are federal grants, program totals, or construction contracts as awarded. Each project's expanded view labels its own basis. We add them up with the labels showing rather than pretend they're all the same kind of number.
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18 major public projects: 5 in the Mobile/port cluster, 4 around Huntsville/Redstone, 3 in metro Birmingham, 2 in Montgomery, 2 prisons, and one each in Auburn and Tuscaloosa. The listed figures sum to ≈$13.8B — computed from the records below, with one record (the FBI's current campus phase) carrying no published figure and contributing nothing to the sum. Two programme-scale numbers dominate: the Northern Beltline's $6.19B full-corridor estimate (only phases are funded at a time — the record says so) and the I-10 bridge's $3.2B Phase 1.
Flagged and partner sources: nine rows rest on news reporting of official figures, flagged 'news-flagged' in the data (the Beltline, the State House, Auburn's stadium facility, the Mobile arena, UAB's Shelby building, the I-65 widening, the port's Phase V berth and Pier B South, and the FBI campus). The two prison rows rest on the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama's synthesis of state figures; the Montgomery ICTF rests on the Port Authority's figures via the Montgomery Chamber. Every record names its underlying official source.
Deliberately excluded: private projects of any size (Toyota/Mazda's plant, Meta's Montgomery data centre, Amazon facilities, the private MidCity expansion in Huntsville) — out of scope by rule; and completed-in-a-prior-year work, including the $366M Mobile Harbor deepening/widening (completed to 50 ft in Oct 2025 — the port's ongoing berth and pier work IS listed), UAB's $86M Altec/Styslinger Genomic Medicine building (opened Oct 2025), the FBI Innovation Center (opened 2025; its campus successor phase is listed with no figure), and Huntsville's completed airport terminal renovations. Redstone's NDAA-authorised labs ($44M + $55M) are authorisations, not funded construction, and are not listed.
Softest record: the FBI campus phase (al-018) — construction is verifiably underway, but no single published cost exists for it, so the record prints 'Not published' rather than borrowing the completed Innovation Center's $229M contract or the Director's $145–160M funding request. The Beltline's $6.19B is the second-softest: an official corridor estimate, not committed funding.