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Denver's Eagle P3 project breaks ground

03 September 2010

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The Denver Transit Partners consortium broke ground on the Denver east corridor gold line transit project on 26 August. The project's financing involves the first use of a PPP structure for a US transit project and the first use of a private activity bond

The Regional Transportation District (RTD), the transit authority for the Denver metropolitan area, awarded Fluor and Macquarie-led DTP the $1.64 billion, 30-year Eagle P3 concession on 15 June. The consortium beat HSBC, Veolia and Siemens Financial Services’ Mountain-Air Transit Partners (MTP). Barclays Capital and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoA Merrill), who underwrote $397.8 million in private activity bonds, closed them on 4 August, little more than six weeks after the concession was awarded.

The Eagle P3 project includes the 36.7km East corridor, 11.7km gold line, 8.4km northwest electrified rail segment (NWES) and a new maintenance facility, is part of the agency’s 225km FasTracks...


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