The project is scheduled for completion in May 2003 and will bring the total size of the center to five million gross sf. The two million sf of exhibition space will make the structure one of the 10 largest in the United States.

Although the audit indicates the project will be completed on time and within budget, $15 million worth of amenities still have to be dropped. That event is expected to raise still more questions in the near future, construction industry sources intimate with the project's details tell GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity.

"I don't think anybody is ripping anybody off on this project but the major players are just poor communicators," a construction industry source tells GlobeSt.com. "Their often lack of communication leads the elected officials and the public to assume there is some under-the-table stuff being done."