On July 26, 2002, the two governors of Kentucky and Indiana announced that the East End Bridge would be constructed, along with a new I-65 downtown span and a reconstructed Kennedy Interchange, where three interstates connect. The cost of the three projects was to total approximately $2.5 billion,[1] and would be the largest transportation project ever constructed between the two states. An estimated 132 residents and 80 businesses were to be displaced.