County Holds Back $600,000 Payment to San Francisco's O'Brien-Kreitzberg

ORLANDO-Orange County commissioners are withholding a $600,000 additional payment request by San Francisco-based O’Brien-Kreitzberg Ltd., the senior construction manager for the half-completed, $750 million, 972,000-sf fifth expansion of the Orange County Convention Center.

The four-year expansion job is slated to open in May 2003. It is the largest public project ever attempted in Central Florida. It is also the most costliest. The exhibit hall-only portion of the expansion is budgeted for $520 million or $535 per sf.

O’Brien-Kreitzberg is being paid $6 million to oversee the work of three general contractors–Hubert, Hunt and Nichols Inc. of Indianapolis, IN; Clark Construction Group Inc. of Bethesda, MD; and Construct Two Group of Orlando.