Cintra

For a meager 1.83 billion dollars the city of Chicago sells it’s Skyway road to two foreign companies for just a year under a century (99 years). The first company was Macquarie of Australia, and the second Cintra of Spain.

Zachry Construction and Cintra of Spain was awarded a lease to build a road from Austin to Sequin. Once built the road would have tolls placed on it. These tolls would apply for fifty years after the road was built, and would be collected and kept by the foreign company Cintra. The state of Texas would receive $1.3 billion from the lease which is a drop in the bucket to what will be raised in tolls.