The Frost Science Museum has been open for nearly a year, and it’s already been visited by almost 1 million people. But it’s not finished, and the nonprofit and the general contractor are fighting over who should pay to complete the work.
The museum faces a lawsuit from its main contractor claiming the nonprofit unfairly held back payments and left construction work undone as budget strains forced it to cut costs in the final months of building the mostly tax-funded $300 million project [...].
— Miami Herald
"Frost is already in litigation with its original contractor, Suffolk Construction, which the museum fired in 2014, two years after starting one of the most complicated construction projects in the Southeast," the Miami Herald reports.
Grimshaw Architects designed the ambitious museum complex in downtown Miami after winning the architectural competition in 2007.
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What kind of unpaid bills. I'm asking this with profound and real sarcasm. Anybody that collects, binds and submit bill's for work performed over a year lapse time from having done such work, should be fired.
I wonder how much all this litigation is costing. What a perfect waist of money and time. That almost seems to be a strategy these days. Hows that working ? I almost fell into the same rabbit hole with the same contractor back in 1998. Of course it was a much much smaller project. This is more refined.
I'm guessing you didn't read the article.
Your correct. I just saw law suit and unpaid bill's and reacted.
Thanks, I'll read it with a clearer head this evening.
I read the article and my gut feeling still stands.
The dollar amount is not disclosed. After an undertermined length of time there is work that's unpaid. Its unclear who's contingency what falls under. Im certain there are phone book binders with directives clarification and changes. Whos fault is it that these sit and collect dust until someone decides that's it time to reel it in. Apparently long after C of O is issued, there is becoming an overlap of what's punch and what's ware & tear.
But it does look like a beautiful museum. The oculus is awesome.
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