initial project was part of a $2 billion program to improve the New York City Transit Authority and Long Island Railroad facilities in New York City. Between 1980 and 1985, the company built the mile-long $750 million Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore Harbor. In the 1990s, Kiewit was part of a joint venture to build the $517 million T-Mobile Park in Seattle, home of the Seattle Mariners baseball team. The project was completed in 1999. Kiewit Infrastructure South is part of the team constructing the 11.5 mile and six-station extension of Washington Metro in Washington D.C. In 2022, Kiewit broke ground on the largest (at the time) US PV and storage project utilizing Ojjo foundations, ATI racking and Maxeon bi-facial modules. This 967 MW (DC) project is located 45 minutes north of Las Vegas, NV. Leadership Rick Lanoha is the current chief executive officer of Kiewit Corporation. His predecessors include Peter Kiewit, Bob Wilson, Walter Scott Jr. Ken Stinson and Bruce E. Grewcock. Prior to Grewcock's retirement, on January 1, 2020, Lanoha had served as president and chief operating officer since 2016 and was elected to Kiewit's board of directors in 2009. Walter Scott, Jr. was first elected to the Peter Kiewit Sons' Incorporated board in 1964. In 1979, he was elected president. When Peter Kiewit died later that same year, Scott was selected to succeed him as chairman. Expansions In 1963, Peter Kiewit bought the Omaha World-Herald to keep it locally owned. Under the terms of his will, the employees bought the paper in 1979. Starting in 1985 (Kiewit built MFS in the early 1990s; Level 3 was built in the 1997 to 1999 circa), Kiewit also constructed a nationwide fiber optic network. This network was later spun off as Level 3 Communications, which became the formal successor corporation to the original Peter Kiewit Sons'. They have a training facility called Kiewit University in its new Omaha, Nebraska campus that trains employees from throughout the US. Other companies Continental Fire Sprinkler of Omaha, Nebraska Aero Automatic Sprinkler Company of Phoenix, Arizona Jet Pipe Industries of Phoenix, Arizona General Construction Company (Now a part of Kiewit Bridge and Marine) of Poulsbo, Washington InEight, Inc (formerly Hard Dollar Corporation) of Scottsdale, Arizona Mass. Electric Construction Co. – Industrial Group (MEC) of Boston, Massachusetts Mass. Electric Construction Co. – Transportation Group (MEC) of Dallas, Texas The Industrial Co. (TIC) of Englewood, Colorado