The city and county of Denver has hired Hensel Phelps Construction as design-builder for the long-delayed expansion of the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. The $233-million project will add a terrace and event space on the center’s roof, upgrade the main lobby and build a new 80,000-sq-ft multi-use room, among other improvements.
The start of the project has been delayed for more than 18 months because of a bid-rigging scandal that surfaced in December 2018. The city shut down the contractor-selection process and terminated a $9-million contract with Dallas-based developer Trammell Crow, its program manager on the job, alleging that the firm had wrongly released project documents to Mortenson Construction, one of the contractor finalists.