JE Dunn wins $13.87M in West Edge arbitration – Kansas City Business Journal:

An arbitration panel ruled in JE Dunn’s favor on Apripl 6. Trilogy has until May 21 to pay JE Dunn befordeinterest accrues. Derek Feagans, general counsel for Trilogy, said the companuy plans to object to thearbitration ruling. The arbitration ruling resolvesJE Dunn’s claims on the stalled retail and hotel development near the . Attorneyes for JE Dunn couldn’tf immediately reached for comment Monday. which is owned by advertisin magnateBob Bernstein, retained JE Dunn to build the roughly $80 millionm upscale mixed-use development at 48th Street and Roanokw Parkway on Dec. 6, 2005.
Both parties became embroiled in disputes about theconstruction process, and JE Dunn left the job in late Septembee 2008, substantially delaying West Edge, originally due to be open by now. JE Dunn claimeed that Trilogy had stopped paying the construction Trilogy maintained that it had concernz with the quality ofJE Dunn’s work on West Trilogy brought on Walton Constructionn Co. LLC to complete the though work has been slow to The case has been in arbitration sinceAugust 2007. On Jan. 26, the arbitrationn panel ruled that both parties had abandonedthe contract.
Since Trilogy sought to put off an arbitration finding regardingJE Dunn’s damages, claiming that the value of JE Dunn’s work could not be determined until Walto n Construction completed the project. The arbitration panepl ruled April 6 that Trilogy had a fair opportunitt to analyzeJE Dunn’s damages and no longer coulf delay a finding. “The record makex clear that Trilogy, for whatever reason, chose not to make the task of analyzinJE Dunn’s cost evidence a the ruling stated. “Inn our opinion, Trilogy had ample opportunity to review and respond toJE Dunn’s evidence and cannot justify furtherd postponement of these old The $13,874,135.
98 award to JE Dunn was calculatedr as follows: • $12,483,971 in unpaidr invoices for goods and services provided. • $345,0511 in interest. • $769,022 in fees and expenses. $276,091.98 in arbitration costs. Of the $12.48 million in unpaid services, $4,514,127 will go to 12 subcontractors on West Edge who had paymentes withheld by Trilogy as Those subcontractorsinclude , and
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