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REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK
Construction,
legal woes
delay
Radisson
Hotel
apartments
conversion
A legal dispute between the owners
of Hartford's Radisson Hotel and the
contractor hired to do millions of dollars
in work to convert the property's upper
floors into apartments has delayed the
project's completion date.
Radisson Hotel's owner, 50 Morgan
Hospitality Group LLC, is spending nearly
$6.5 million to convert the building's eight
upper floors into 96 apartments, which
will overlook Dunkin' Donuts Park.
The project, which received a two-year
$6.5 million construction loan from the
Capital Region Development Authority
(CRDA), was originally set to debut this
spring, possibly in time for the Hartford
Yard Goats' opening day, April 13.
In January, however, 50 Morgan Hos-
pitality Group filed a lawsuit in Hartford
Superior Court against a contractor it
hired — and eventually fired — to over-
see the apartments conversion, accusing
Arizona-based Excel Hotel Services Inc.
of breaching its $6 million contract. (The
case has since been transferred to federal
district court).
The hotel owner says Excel Hotel
Services failed to adopt or follow the
construction schedule and didn't pro-
vide sufficient manpower to hit key proj-
ect deadlines and milestones, including
required inspections.
Excel also failed to pay subcontractors
or adequately document work it allegedly
completed, the lawsuit states.
In addition, the state Department
of Labor (DOL) issued three stop work
orders on the project in January after
The conversion of Radisson Hotel's upper floors to
apartments has hit legal and constructions snafus.
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