A $1.75 billion repaving of every road on St. Croix, a $1.25 billion replacement of its drinking-water system, two hospital rebuilds priced at $928 million and $834 million, a $899 million hardening of the power grid and the first new school in a generation — opened in August 2026 — headline the Virgin Islands' federally funded rebuild.
*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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13 major public projects are listed. The listed figures sum to $7,155,600,000 (≈$7.16B) — and the top of the list is not buildings but two FEMA-obligated island systems on St. Croix: the $1.75B unified road-paving project (481 miles, sequenced to start only after the water, wastewater and undergrounding work beneath those roads is finished) and the $1.25B prudent replacement of St. Croix's potable-water distribution system. Bases differ and are labelled on every record: FEMA obligations and grants, executed design-build contracts, one programme award and one derived total (Arthur Richards, printed as the $252M spent plus the ~$12M officials said remained). FEMA Public Assistance and CDBG-DR obligated amounts are published figures, not final costs — obligations are capped, can be de-obligated or re-scoped, and VI recovery projects slip often; every record says so where it applies. This is a majors list, not a census: the territory's $3.68B FEMA school programme alone carries 22 active projects, and only the individually priced majors are listed here.
Owner mapping for this territory page: the Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands and its authorities and departments — WAPA, the VI Port Authority, the VI Housing Authority, the Department of Education, the Department of Public Works and the two hospital entities — are the state-equivalent public owner, so their projects are level "state" even when FEMA or HUD is the funder. A project is level "federal" only when a federal agency is itself the constructing owner; no record on this page met that test, so none is listed as federal. The airports programme shows the rule at work in reverse: the VI Port Authority's terminal redevelopment at Cyril E. King and Henry E. Rohlsen airports is being financed and delivered by the private VIports Partners consortium under a 40-year P3 (financial terms never published) — a private-financed build with no published figure, named here rather than listed.
One 2026 completion is listed, with its opening printed: the Arthur A. Richards PreK-8 School on St. Croix (opened August 10, 2026, ribbon-cutting August 7). Completed in a prior year, however large, and excluded-and-named: the Walter I.M. Hodge Pavilion housing revitalization in Frederiksted (VIHA's first Rental Assistance Demonstration project, completed and ribbon-cut before the D. Hamilton Jackson Terrace project that is listed here); the JFL North interim modular hospital on St. Croix (completed and in service since March 2023, FEMA-funded at about $110.5M — an interim facility, not the permanent replacement listed here); and the Tutu Hi-Rise repair works at Estate Tutu on St. Thomas (repair obligations, not a redevelopment record). Deliberately excluded — private builds: the Crown Bay cruise district redevelopment on St. Thomas (VIPA land, but developed, financed and operated by Cruise Terminals International / Royal Caribbean Group under the December 2025 lease — private); the St. Croix refinery at Limetree Bay / Ocean Point (private restart and operations — the territory's largest industrial site stays off this page); and resort, hotel and condominium construction territory-wide.
Named, not listed — announced, unpriced or below the floor: the Schneider and Juan Luis hospital figures are FEMA rebuild awards announced through the territory's congressional delegate; the Schneider project was still in CMAR procurement in October 2026 (ODR RFP 004-2026-STT, proposals due November 20, 2026), so both hospitals are printed as pre-construction, not as builds under way. WAPA's prudent replacement of the Randolph Harley (St. Thomas) and Richmond (St. Croix) power plants — FEMA allocations reported at more than $880M combined, with design and pre-construction contracts of just under $7M per site let in December 2025 — has no published single project figure or executed construction contract, so it is named here rather than split into invented records; the priced grid work that does exist is listed (distribution hardening and the AMI meter replacement). The Bertha C. Boschulte school rebuild ($120M design-and-construction contract value, bundled with Charlotte Amalie High School in February 2026 ODR testimony) is the next education record in line and is named here because the contract reporting is bundle-level. Smaller priced WAPA undergrounding contracts (Feeder 9A, St. Thomas, up to $12.8M; Queen Mary Highway Phase 1, St. Croix, $10.9M; Feeder 9E, St. John, nearly $20M) sit inside the distribution-hardening programme record and are not double-counted. Myrah Keating Smith Community Health Center on St. John is inside the St. John mixed bundle with the Sprauve school (preconstruction services $3.3M for the bundle, February 2026 testimony) and has no separate published figure, so it is named here rather than listed.