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Reconstruction of the highway interchange at Interstate 225, 17th Place and Colfax Ave. The project will dramatically improve access to the Fitzsimons campus ahich is home to the UCHSC Health Sciences Center.
$50,000,000.00 - 2000 jobs - Streets/Roads Program
53% voted critical - 47% voted not critical - 189 votes cast
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[edit] General Description
A new interchange serving the Anschutz Medical Campus and Fitzsimons Life Science District located at I-225 and Colfax Avenue/17th Place in Aurora received a total of $13,825,000 in federal funding in March 2009 to begin the first few stages of construction. A new interchange has a price tag of $43 million.
[edit] Points in Favor
The Anschutz/Fitzsimons site, which currently employees 15,900, is the home of the University of Colorado Denver health sciences operations, the University of Colorado Hospital, The Children’s Hospital, the proposed new Veterans Administration Hospital, and several other centers for health care, biomedical research and workforce development. In addition to the employee numbers mentioned above, there are patients, students, faculty, volunteers and visitors that visit the site for a total of 22,797 people visiting Anschutz/Fitzsimons everyday. These visits account for 58,000 car trips in and out of the site on a daily basis. The current interchange that serves the majority of this traffic was built decades ago and designed to have a capacity of 4,000 vehicles per day. The Anschutz Medical Campus and Fitzsimons Life Science District is the perfect project for the federal government to invest the economic stimulus. This is a project that contributed $3.5 billion dollars to our state’s economy last year with $1.4 billion generated in personal income. By 2013, the site will employ 21,041 directly, contribute $4.5 billion annually to Colorado’s economy and generate $1.8 billion in personal income. I can’t think of a better project in Colorado for the tax payers to support. At build-out, the Anschutz/Fitzsimons site will be a $5.2 billion investment, consist of approximately 18.5 million square feet and employ 44,569 people.
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So Aurora, the 2nd largest city in Colorado, gets one (enormous) shot at the $2+ billion and it is to be used to "improve access" to the University Hospital area - formerly Fitzsimons -????!!! Unbelievable. Access off I-225 to Colfax just east is already the longest two lane access off I-225 I've seen anywhere - ever! Not only that, but there is fairly quick - and easy - access to Peoria off I-70 as well as several entrances to the complex off Colfax. There are so many other things $50M could be spent on that are SO much more important than improving access to the University Hospital. I'm aghast and incredibly disgusted that this is Aurora's only piece of the pie.