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GlobeSt.com UPDATE: Architect, Contractors Cited in Convention Center Audit

ORLANDO-Egerton van den Berg, a former Orange County commissioner, one-time airport authority member and one of the area's foremost lawyers, says the public should have been told in advance of the expected amenities that were not in the $750 million budget for the fifth-phase, 972,000-sf expansion.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on October 29, 2001

ORLANDO-The architect and the joint venture general contracting group overseeing completion of the $750 million, 972,000-sf expansion of the Orange County Convention Center are being singled out in a special audit for poor public relations in handling the fifth phase of the area’s largest public construction job in 10 years.

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.

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