A $1.2 billion safety overhaul of the Tulsa District's highest-risk dam, a $900 million new NBA arena rising in downtown Oklahoma City, ODOT's largest-ever contract rebuilding Tulsa's 'Traffic Henge' interchange, and a $337 million software lab at Tinker Air Force Base headline Oklahoma'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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18 major public projects: 8 in the Oklahoma City metro, 7 in the Tulsa metro, and one each at Keystone Lake, Webbers Falls and Tenkiller Lake. The listed figures sum to ≈$4.2B — the sum of the listed records only. This is effectively a MAJORS list, stated plainly following the Virginia and West Virginia precedent: Oklahoma publishes hundreds of funded highway and water projects in the $10M–$60M range (ODOT's eight-year plan alone holds 1,266 projects), and they are acknowledged here but not itemised; the $10M floor was not raised.
ACCESS Oklahoma, handled carefully: the Turnpike Authority's long-range programme — announced at $5B in 2022 and now priced at about $8.2B — is NOT listed at its programme total, because that would double-count the projects inside it. Only its awarded construction contracts appear (the $97M East-West Connector bridge contract and the $23M Kilpatrick widening, both awarded December 9, 2025, after litigation delayed the programme by about a year; the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled for the Authority and funded work is now moving — nothing in ACCESS met the test for a 'suspended' listing at verification). The programme's later phases, including the contested South Extension toward Purcell — realigned west of Lake Thunderbird in 2025 and sequenced much later in the plan — are not listed. Separately, Keystone Dam's record uses USACE's February 2026 updated total ($1.201B), superseding the $416M figure in earlier district presentations; the superseded figure is disclosed on the record.
News-flagged sources: six rows rest on news or trade reporting of official figures, flagged 'news-flagged' in the data — the MAPS 4 stadium (CEG, reporting the City), the county jail (Oklahoma Politics Today, reporting Oklahoma County's ballot materials), OU's Children's Behavioral Health Center and OSU's Medical Center expansion (Healthcare Design, reporting owner releases), both ACCESS contracts (Oklahoma Voice, reporting the OTA board), and the Waterloo Road interchange (Oklahoma Business Voice, summarizing ODOT's listing — the softest sourcing on the list, flagged for re-verification against ODOT lettings). Each record names the underlying official source.
Deliberately excluded: tribal-government projects, which sit outside this page's owner scope by rule — most notably the Cherokee Nation's $470M replacement W.W. Hastings Hospital in Tahlequah (completed July 2026, the largest healthcare capital investment in tribal history) and its authorized $255M Claremore replacement facility; private projects of any size (Google's data-centre campuses, wind farms); completed majors (the Gilcrease Expressway, opened 2022; Will Rogers World Airport's terminal expansion, completed 2021); the Donahue Behavioral Health Campus new-build in Oklahoma City — abandoned in May 2025 when legislators pivoted to buying and renovating an existing facility, so the new-build is neither listed nor carried as suspended, and its renovation replacement has no published construction programme yet; OU Children's Pediatric Heart Center (~$295M budget in a 2025 design RFQ, but its ~$250M public funding request was not secured — an unfunded proposal under the rules); the remaining I-35/I-240 interchange phases (in ODOT's eight-year plan, with a federal Bridge Investment Program grant still being sought); and the FY2026 NDAA's $55M McAlester Army Ammunition Plant authorization — an authorization, not a construction contract.
Softest record: the Oklahoma County Detention Center. It is listed at the $260M voters actually committed in 2022, not at a total now estimated above $800M, because the balance depends on a sales-tax vote scheduled for November 3, 2026 — after this page's verification date. If the tax fails, the county says construction stops when the bond money runs out. The Tinker Child Development Center is next softest: an FY2026 justification-book figure, not yet a construction contract.