The National Slavery Museum, which was spearheaded by former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder, never paid Pei for the architectural work. Pei says it is owed more than $6 million, money that the firm hopes to recoup in an eventual sale of the 38 acres.
The slavery museum organization now owes more than $300,000 in delinquent real estate taxes to Fredericksburg. The city has begun the lengthy legal process of selling the land at auction to recoup the back taxes.
— news.fredericksburg.com
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just think of it as an internship.
Nice one, cowerd!
Yikes, that sucks. I'm owed a shit load of money for a project that went south a few years back. It is still tied up in US District Court, with no time line for resolve in site. Crazy thing is my testimony is in the center of case. Hopefully someday I can speak of it in a positive manner. But today I feel abit like the folk over at I.M. Pei.
Slavery isn't the apt metaphor here, unless the Pei staff was actually owned by the State of Virginia. Grand larceny is more like it... and bad enough.
All the time and effort that architects must spend just to get paid is pretty scandalous.
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