DENVER (AP) -- The Veterans Affairs Department has resolved a contract impasse with a construction company that delayed work on a new veterans hospital for Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming.
The VA said Thursday the 200-bed, $800 million hospital in the Denver suburb of Aurora will be completed in early 2015, about a year late.
The VA said in a written statement it reached an agreement with a partnership of Turner Construction Co. and Kiewit Corp. on Wednesday. It's not clear when construction will start.
The VA says negotiations were lengthy and difficult but offered no details. VA officials didn't immediately return a call.
Democratic Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet and Rep. Ed Perlmutter had pressed the VA to end the delay.
The hospital replaces a 59-year-old facility in southeast Denver.
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