So, after 10 years and close to a billion dollars ($2 billion ifyou include financing), one of the biggest and most expensivebuildings in the world is set to open. What is it, you ask? TheRonald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. And it even,finally, has a few tenants. Which is not to say that it's finished -the dedication won't be until April.
The Reagan Building is a model of excess, in more ways than one.To cite the most obvious excess, it came in at 125 percent overbudget ($818 million vs. $362 million). And despite a finance schemethat legislators swore would cost the Treasury nothing, taxpayersended up footing the entire bill.
Then there are …
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