A $575 million cancer center rising in Kansas City, Kansas, a $362 million second phase remaking the University of Kansas's stadium district in Lawrence, the largest single highway contract in KDOT history on Wichita's East Kellogg, and a $275.7 million completion of Lawrence's South Lawrence Trafficway headline Kansas's public pipeline.
*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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16 major public projects: 6 in the Kansas City / Lawrence corridor, 2 at Fort Riley, 1 in Topeka, 2 in Manhattan and 4 in Wichita. The listed figures sum to ≈$4.1B. Kansas City is a bi-state metro and this page applies the bi-state rule strictly: Missouri's page owns the Missouri-side projects (including I-70 Kansas City and the Chain of Rocks bridge), nothing on it is duplicated here, and Kansas-side projects in Kansas City, Kansas, Wyandotte and Johnson counties are listed on this page. One record is a genuinely shared crossing listed once at its published total: the Centennial Bridge replacement at Leavenworth ($157M, KDOT/MoDOT) — Missouri's page does not carry it, so the total stands here once and is not halved. The Kansas Citys Levees programme was likewise bi-state; completed in 2026, it is listed once here (ks-014) under the owner's October 2026 completion ruling.
How the count is kept: Eisenhower (IKE) Transportation Program projects are tallied only at their priced, funded packages — never at the programme's roughly $10B ten-year total. Where a corridor is being delivered in priced packages, the packages are combined in a single record and the arithmetic shown: the South Lawrence Trafficway's west leg is $171M (south, building) plus $104.7M (north, awarded October 2026). Where only one phase is building, only that phase is tallied — Wichita's North Junction counts Phase 2B alone. Two judgment calls deserve naming: the K-96 improvements in Wichita ($120M package) are NOT listed, because only the Blue segment is in funded final design (letting 2029) and the package's southern end overlaps the East Kellogg interchange work already tallied here — listing both would double-count the junction; and KU's Gateway District Phase II ($362M) is listed as state-partnered because the phase wraps private hotel, student-housing and retail development around the public university's stadium rebuild.
News-flagged sources: six rows rest on news or trade-press reporting of official figures, flagged 'news-flagged' in the data — the Centennial Bridge and KU Gateway Phase II (ENR), the Polk-Quincy Viaduct (CEG, on governor's-office figures), the Fort Riley control tower (KCLY Radio, on the federal appropriations package) the Wichita North Junction (ACP Magazines, on KDOT figures) and the U.S. 69 Express completion (ACP Magazines, on KDOT figures). Each record names the underlying official source. The softest records on the page are the KU Cancer Center — published figures for the complex range from about $450M at groundbreaking to the ≈$575M tallied here, all disclosed on the record — and the Fort Riley air traffic control tower, whose $26M rests on a single news report of the appropriations bill, corroborated as to status by the Corps of Engineers' 2026 solicitation.
Deliberately excluded: projects completed in a prior year, however large — the Wichita Northwest Water Facility (≈$500M, operational early 2025 — the largest capital investment in Wichita's history), the Docking State Office Building in Topeka (opened October 30, 2025), the Kansas Health & Environment Laboratory in Topeka ($73M, opened March 2025), KU Gateway District Phase I ($448M, opened August 2025) and the Johnson County Gateway Phase 2 (I-435/I-35/K-10, $296M, opened 2016). Excluded as unfunded or pipeline-only: the K-10 Corridor Capacity Improvements in Johnson County ($1.16B construction estimate; IKE development pipeline, 'not currently funded for construction' per KDOT), the K-96 Improvements package in Wichita ($120M; see above), the US-75 expansion, Holton to K-20 ($126M, pipeline) and the Wichita North Junction's Purple Project phase. Excluded as private, however large: the Panasonic EV battery plant in De Soto, the region's data centres, and Fort Leavenworth's 'New Kansa' townhomes ($31M, broken ground June 2026 — privatised military housing built and operated by a private developer). No verified termination was found among Kansas's majors in this cycle.