finished in 1995, 2 years late, at a cost of 4.8 BILLION dollars, roughly 3.1 billion over budget, like ya' do. The airport was privately funded, and nobody really knows by whom. A marker stone in the terminal reads the airport was funded by The New World Airport Commission.
It should also be noted that Denver had a completely functional airport, Stapleton, that many people liked just fine. Stapleton was only 6 miles from Denver after all.
There was really no need to build the airport in the first place… unless you needed a construction project up above to mask a larger construction project happening down below
Well…. i finally get why they had all us colorado cult kids joke about secret pedo bunkers under the school in film… long story