The sub -contractor in Chicago is one of the companies participating in building management Obama Presidential Center For $ 40 million, the demand for racist discriminatory practices that forced the company to do additional work is at risk of bankruptcy, according to a lawsuit.
Robert McGoy, the owner of II in OneE, who provided concrete services and the armament of the center, starting in 2021, filed the lawsuit in the Federal Court last month against Its headquarters Thornton Timeste, who oversees engineering and structural design services for a $ 830 million project.
McGe claims that the Tombaste Tomasity is non -standards and the imposition of new rules about the requirements of spacing and tolerance that differ from the standards of the American Concrete Institute, which led to “strict inspection and very necessary” and enormous abuses.
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Obama draws the coordinator in Chicago to the huge presidential center project
This, McGe, claims, incurred wide paperwork that affected productivity and led to millions of losses, according to Case.
However, Thornton Tomasetti defended his actions almost a year ago, as he wrote in a note to the lawsuit that the subcontractors were “doubtfully qualified”, and the delays were due to their shortcomings.
The Obama Presidential Center is built near Jackson Park In ChicagoAnd it will consist of a museum, library, society and planned conferences. The center will include the Obama Non -profit Foundation, which oversees the development of the center and runs a scholarship program through the Faculty of Public Policy at Harris University at the University of Chicago.
McGe claims that Tombaste Torrenton falsely accused II in one of the qualifications and sufficient experience to perform its work, with saying that the non -owned contractors were not qualified enough.
It seeks to pay for approximately $ 40 million in construction, the costs of the company that covered the company itself along with its partner in the joint project, Concrete Collective.
“In a terrible and frustrated turning point of events, the American owner of African origin finds a local construction company himself and his company on the brink of forced closure due to racial discrimination by the structural engineer,” says the lawsuit.
In a note, thornton Tomasetti shared pictures of a cracked and open -armed -armament board. (Laoit)
“II in one of its partners in the joint project … has been subjected to unfounded criticism and defamatory and discriminatory accusations by the structural engineer of the Obama Foundation, Thornton Tomasity.
However, Thornton Tomasetti claimed in a note in February 2024 that construction and delay costs “were all unambiguously driven by performance and lack of experience” that contractor from the subcontractor, II in one.
In a noteand Thornton Tomasetti shared pictures of a cracked and unusual reinforcing board.
In the memo, Thornton Tomasetti tells the leadership of the Obama Foundation that it spent hundreds of hours review, analyze and redesign the corrective work and respond to it and that the contractors have caused “many problems in this field.”
Thornton Tomasity said that the challenges with concrete were only due to the performance of the contractors.
“We cannot stand while contractors are trying to blame their shortcomings on the design team,” the memo says.
The memorandum continues that Thornton Tomasity and an architectural company “is determined back to help what everyone knows was a team of subconsciously qualified in the areas where the contractor was not more qualified.”
Obama Presidential Center under construction in the 6000 South Stone Island Street on August 10, 2023. (Chicago Tribune / shareholder)
The project faced problems in the past. The construction was expected to start at the beginning in 2018, but it was returned to 2021. It is scheduled to open at some point in 2026.
Some community activists claim that the new center will increase the prices of homes and rent, and many of those who live in the region may be valid. Environmental activists also criticize the project, on the pretext that it will remove a lot of trees and destroy some bird habitats.
Activists threatened to prosecute the prevention of developments, but the center’s construction plan was approved shortly after a lawsuit, according to Newsweek. The Supreme Court refused to request the case in 2021.
Illinois Governor GB Pritzker joins former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama at a celebration at the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park on September 28, 2021, in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Obama said he hoped to help the center strengthen the southern side of the city and collect Chicago.
Democrat reduced these differences during His pioneering speech in 2021 on the site He said the center “will grow new trees” and “provides new habitats for birds and wildlife.”
Fox News Digital called Obama, Thornton Tomasetti and II in one to comment but she did not receive responses before publishing.
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