A Google Street View of Miami Beach Convention Center at 1901 Convention Center Drive.
The construction manager for the massive Miami Beach Convention Center redevelopment claims the city owes over $70 million for extra work resulting from the city's many designs changes.
Clark Construction Group LLC was hired as construction manager in 2015 agreement for the $515 million renovation and expansion project. It includes 500,000 square feet of exhibit walls, meeting rooms and support space plus a 60,000-square-foot ballroom, rooftop parking, and landscaping and road work.
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the Bethesda, Maryland-based builder claimed the city issued multiple changes to design drawings and agreed to some of the extra costs but declined many others. The city also declined to grant Clark all the extra time it needed to complete the work, leaving the contractor to either push to finish in time for major events or work around them.
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Lidia Dinkova
Lidia Dinkova covers South Florida real estate for the Daily Business Review. Contact her at [email protected] or 305-347-6665. On Twitter @LidiaDinkova.
