Restoration of The Capitol
Back in 1998, Idaho officials created a master plan to restore The Capitol building. Though the Idaho State Capitol Building is magnificent, it had begun to fade with age. The interior restoration work would include: to restore and refinish windows, repair marble flooring, repair decorative plaster, restore wood floors, refinish wood doors and restore hardware, upgrade electrical, complete smoke and fire detection system, improve exterior lighting, add emergency power generator, and to install an accessible elevator. The legislature initially provided ($120 thousand) for the project and selected CSHQA as the developer. In 2000, The master plan was completed and it would cost a total of about $64 million. They called this plan Phase I in which they expected to accomplish the exterior masonry repairs. In 2001, the legislature issued a one-time appropriation of $32 million and then would cause the government to issue bonds to the other half of the project. From 2002-2003 builders worked on Phase II of the project which involved exterior capital repairs and $1.5 million was issued to further fund the project. A few years later in 2005, a hope for the renewal of interior restoration sparked due to the cigarette tax that brought in funds to help pay for the remodel and restoration expenses that approximately totaled $20 million. From 2006-2010 authorization is given to finance two 2-story underground wings that would cost about $130 million. After the economy took a turn for the worse, Governor Otter compromised to only have two 1-story underground wings. After this compromise was reached building continued up until 2010 when both interior and exterior renovations were finished.
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