Two Air Force airfields rising on Tinian — a $409 million restoration of the World War II North Field and the $383.5 million Divert Airfield — headline a Commonwealth pipeline still dominated, eight years on, by rebuilding what Super Typhoon Yutu destroyed.
*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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9 major public projects are listed. The listed figures sum to $954,050,000 (≈$954.1M) — and two Tinian defense records dominate it: the Air Force's $409M North Field task order and the $383.5M Tinian Divert Airfield (its two published phase contracts, $161.8M + $221.7M, added once and disclosed on the record). Bases differ and are labelled on every record: firm contracts, federal grants (FEMA Public Assistance, FAA, EDA) and one matched program total. This is a majors list, not a census: the Commonwealth's capital program is mostly small — the DOI Office of Insular Affairs Capital Improvement Program draws only a few million dollars a year, FEMA Public Assistance after Super Typhoon Yutu totalled about $281.5M awarded across dozens of applicants as of July 2021 (including $81.1M to the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation, $53.3M to the Public School System, $34.8M to Northern Marianas College and $8.9M to the Commonwealth Ports Authority), and most individual items sit below this page's $10M published-figure threshold. One 2026 completion is listed: the Garapan Revitalization Project ($11.2M, ribbon cutting February 13 — see the softness note on its record).
Owner mapping, per this series' rule for the CNMI: the Commonwealth government and its public corporations and agencies — the Commonwealth Ports Authority, the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation, the Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation, the Public School System, Northern Marianas College and the Department of Public Works — are the state-equivalent public owner and are printed at level "state", even where the money is federal (FEMA is a funder, not the owner; the owner stays the CNMI entity). Federal records are only those where a federal agency is itself the constructing owner — here, the two U.S. Air Force airfield programs on Tinian. Post-Yutu recovery frames most of the civilian list: Super Typhoon Yutu (October 2018), the strongest storm ever recorded in the CNMI, did over $800M of damage by FEMA's estimate, and eight years later its school, college and utility rebuilds are still the Commonwealth's civilian construction pipeline — now joined, in 2026 reporting, by recovery from further typhoons (Sinlaku and Bavi) that damaged the Saipan airport terminal and forced USACE to build 18 temporary modular classrooms at NMC; those emergency works carry no published project figure and are named here rather than listed.
Excluded — private builds, named: the Imperial Pacific International casino-resort in Garapan (a private project by a defunct operator, its unfinished hotel tower a Saipan landmark — private and defunct, excluded on both grounds); private hotel and resort construction generally; and the CUC solar-plus-storage power purchase arrangement reported in October 2026 at about $245M of private developer investment (Eastern Power / Naftan Solar, financed privately and through a USDA rural renewable loan, with CUC paying only for power delivered under a 25-year PPA at a reported 18.5¢/kWh) — a privately owned build, named here at its reported scale rather than listed as a public project, with its regulatory approval still pending in the reporting retrieved. Completed in a prior year, however large: no pre-2026 completion above the floor could be verified as a single priced project in the sources retrieved — the Yutu-era permanent repairs at ports, schools and clinics were delivered as many small FEMA project worksheets rather than named majors. Terminated, not suspended: the Hopwood Middle School construction contract with CJ Innovation ($21.55M) was terminated in January 2026 over the contractor's failure to secure required U.S. Treasury bonding, after design and demolition were completed; the project itself continues to rebid and is listed as pre-construction — the termination is disclosed on its record, and no record on this page is labelled "suspended".
Below-floor notables, named instead of padded in: the Port of Saipan dredging and main-dock expansion design, funded by a $3,135,000 U.S. DOT RAISE grant for A&E design (Commonwealth Ports Authority); the Saipan International Airport common-use terminal equipment award ($2,095,000, FAA Airport Terminal Program, May 2026); DOI-OIA supplemental funding of $2.2M (June 2025) toward the $27M Beach Road program listed here; EPA emerging-contaminants ($9.45M) and lead-pipe ($6.2M) grant funding to CUC announced in 2026 — grant programs without a single priced construction project; the new Saipan commuter terminal (delivered, per CPA's FY2025 report, but no published project cost could be verified); the Tinian Marina ($1M, opened August 2025); and CHCC's capital items, which in the sources retrieved are equipment-scale (a $1M DOI CIP roof repair at the main hospital in FY2021; hospital equipment in the FY2025 CIP drawdowns) — no CHCC construction project above $10M with a published figure could be verified, and none is invented. Gaps and disclosures: CNMI project data is thin and slow — several records rest on news reporting of official figures (Marianas Business Journal, Marianas Press, Saipan Tribune via the Tinian mayor's office) and are typed "news-flagged" on their records; completion dates that have passed without a confirming opening report (Tinian Divert Phase 2, due October 11, 2026) are printed as estimates, not completions.