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Channel Tunnel, Folkestone, United Kingdom
Starts 05/06/1994CONFIRMED 78% CONFIDENCE32.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: the tunnel "was officially opened on May 6, 1994," presided over by Queen Elizabeth II and President Mitterrand.
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Starts 12/31/2029SCHEDULED 82% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: the line "is on track to be opened for service in late 2029."
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DC Water Launches the Boring Machine Mary Under the Potomac
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Brooklyn Bridge, New York, NY, USA
Starts 05/24/1883CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE143.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Brooklyn Bridge opens | May 24, 1883".
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Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion
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Starts 08/27/2027SCHEDULED 83% CONFIDENCEin 338 daysGiven as scheduled, per VDOT and the source^[1]: "the revised project schedule sets... a final completion date for August 27, 2027."
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$4B
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Star Brisbane Opens at Queen's Wharf
Queens Wharf Road, Brisbane City, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Starts 08/29/2024CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Star Grand Hotel, the new Star Brisbane casino... opened on 29 August 2024".
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Bewley's Opens as a Dublin Tea Dealer
Bewley's Café, 78-79, Grafton Street, Royal Exchange B Ward 1986, Dublin, County Dublin, Leinster, D02 F798, IrelandBewley's
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Cauponor Opens in Nashville
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Austin-Bergstrom Opens Concourse B and Its Passenger Tunnel
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One Vanderbilt Opens Beside Grand Central
1 Vanderbilt Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY 10017SL Green Realty…
Starts 09/14/2020CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE6.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "One Vanderbilt was formally opened with a ceremony three days later, on September 14."
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$3.3B
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Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Silvertown Tunnel Opens Under the Thames
Silvertown, London Borough of Newham, London, United KingdomTransport for London
Starts 04/07/2025CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE1.5 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Silvertown Tunnel will open on 7 April 2025, as confirmed by TfL^[2]."
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$2.8B
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The New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as June 2026, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]

Start: Jun 30, 202650% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Passage Opens at the Inn at Langley

Johnny Spero, who won a Michelin star at Reverie in Washington, opens a seafood tasting menu at the Inn at Langley on Whidbey Island.

Named to The New York Times' Restaurant List 2026, its 50 favourite restaurants in the United States (unranked), published on 15 September 2026; the list gives the opening as June 2026^[1]
Johnny Spero trained at Noma and Mugaritz, opened Reverie in Washington in 2018 (a Michelin star in 2022) and left the city in 2025^[1]
An ever-changing seafood tasting menu: halibut with yuzu, geoduck crudo, Dungeness crab rice^[1]

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The Restaurant List 2026: Passage
nytimes.com· Published Sep 15, 2026· Starts Jun 30, 2026 ✓· 49% of score
The New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as June 2026, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.
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innatlangley.com· Added Sep 22, 2026· 51% of score
The restaurant's own website, linked from its New York Times entry. It confirms the restaurant is operating but does not date the opening.^[1]

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The Channel Tunnel Opens
Channel Tunnel, Folkestone, United Kingdom
Starts 05/06/1994CONFIRMED 78% CONFIDENCE32.4 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: the tunnel "was officially opened on May 6, 1994," presided over by Queen Elizabeth II and President Mitterrand.
The $15BN Channel Tunnel opened, linking Britain to mainland Europe by rail for the first time since the last Ice Age, after six years of construction under the English Channel.
$15B
0.61
Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Beijing Daxing International Airport Opens
Beijing Daxing International Airport, Daxing District, Beijing, ChinaZaha Hadid Architects
Starts 09/25/2019CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE7.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The airport opened on 25 September 2019."
Beijing opened Daxing International Airport, a vast starfish-shaped terminal designed by Zaha Hadid Architects to relieve pressure on the capital’s overcrowded main airport.
0.60
Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk
Surrey Langley SkyTrain
Surrey, British Columbia, CanadaTransLink
Starts 12/31/2029SCHEDULED 82% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsGiven as scheduled, per the source^[1]: the line "is on track to be opened for service in late 2029."
Metro Vancouver is spending CAD $6BN extending the SkyTrain Expo Line 16km from Surrey to Langley, after scrapping a cheaper light-rail plan that would already have opened.
C$6B
0.60
Infrastructure09/20/2026@BuildDesk
DC Water Launches the Boring Machine Mary Under the Potomac
West Potomac Park, Ohio Drive SW, Washington, D.C. 20024, United StatesDistrict of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority
Starts 04/10/2026CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE166 days agoDC Water's^[1] own release of April 10, 2026 announces the launch as having happened that day.
DC Water lowered the tunnel boring machine Mary into a 100-foot-deep shaft in West Potomac Park and started her north towards Georgetown University, the first 2.4 miles of a 5.5-mile combined sewer overflow tunnel. The $819 million tunnel is part of the Clean Rivers Project and will cut Potomac overflow events from 74 a year to four; a second Herrenknecht machine, Emily, bores south towards Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling.
0.60
Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk
The Brooklyn Bridge Opens
Brooklyn Bridge, New York, NY, USA
Starts 05/24/1883CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE143.3 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Brooklyn Bridge opens | May 24, 1883".
New York's Brooklyn Bridge opened to the public, completing a 13-year construction effort that Emily Warren Roebling steered to completion after her husband was incapacitated by decompression sickness.
0.59
Transport09/14/2026@BuildDesk
Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion
Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, Norfolk, Virginia, USAVirginia Department of Transportation
Starts 08/27/2027SCHEDULED 83% CONFIDENCEin 338 daysGiven as scheduled, per VDOT and the source^[1]: "the revised project schedule sets... a final completion date for August 27, 2027."
Virginia is expanding the world's first bridge-tunnel, adding new tubes and widened approaches at Naval Station Norfolk, the largest naval base on Earth, more than 50 years after it first opened.
$4B
0.59
Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Star Brisbane Opens at Queen's Wharf
Queens Wharf Road, Brisbane City, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Starts 08/29/2024CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE2.1 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Star Grand Hotel, the new Star Brisbane casino... opened on 29 August 2024".
The first phase of Queen's Wharf Brisbane, the AUD $3.6BN riverside district built around the historic Queen's Wharf site, opened to the public as Star Brisbane.
A$3.6B
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Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Bewley's Opens as a Dublin Tea Dealer
Bewley's Café, 78-79, Grafton Street, Royal Exchange B Ward 1986, Dublin, County Dublin, Leinster, D02 F798, IrelandBewley's
Starts 12/31/1840ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE185.7 years agoThe article's infobox gives the year only - founded 1840 in Dublin - so the pin takes that year's last day.^[1]
The Bewley family began dealing tea in Dublin in 1840, having broken the East India Company's grip on the trade by shipping direct from China, and the cafés followed. The Grafton Street room, with its Harry Clarke windows and open fires, became the city's front parlour.
0.59
Food09/22/2026FoodDesk
Cauponor Opens in Nashville
1316, Adams Street, Nashville, Davidson County, Middle Tennessee, Tennessee, 37208, United StatesCauponor
Starts 07/31/2026ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE54 days agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as July 2026, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]
Jake Howell, Yuriko Say and Craig Schoen, the team behind Peninsula, open a seven-table multicourse speakeasy by the Cumberland River.
0.59
Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk
Austin-Bergstrom Opens Concourse B and Its Passenger Tunnel
Concourse B site, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, 3600 Presidential Boulevard, Austin, TX 78719, United StatesAustin-Bergstrom International Airport
Starts 01/01/2030DELAYED3 years late40% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsThe airport's own programme page says Concourse B and its tunnel are "estimated to open in the early 2030s", a span rather than a date.^[1]
The airport's second concourse is a standalone midfield building south of the Barbara Jordan Terminal, reached by an underground walkway with moving walkways, and carries a new integrated baggage system. It is meant to open alongside the $865 million Arrivals and Departures Hall under the Journey With AUS programme.
$1.1B
0.58
Architecture09/15/2026@BuildDesk
One Vanderbilt Opens Beside Grand Central
1 Vanderbilt Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY 10017SL Green Realty…
Starts 09/14/2020CONFIRMED 82% CONFIDENCE6.0 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "One Vanderbilt was formally opened with a ceremony three days later, on September 14."
One Vanderbilt, a 1,401-foot supertall office tower beside Grand Central Terminal, formally opened in Midtown Manhattan.
$3.3B
0.58
Transport09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Silvertown Tunnel Opens Under the Thames
Silvertown, London Borough of Newham, London, United KingdomTransport for London
Starts 04/07/2025CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE1.5 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The Silvertown Tunnel will open on 7 April 2025, as confirmed by TfL^[2]."
Transport for London opened the Silvertown Tunnel, a new road crossing under the Thames built to relieve the perennially congested Blackwall Tunnel a few hundred metres away.
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