The Jameson | 53.95m | 17s | Open Sky | Acton Ostry

What do you think of this project?

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Baronmine said:
The hoarding has been removed, and the sidewalk reopened. Not sure how long ago, but I was passed there a few days ago.
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Yes this happened a month ago and was reported on in this thread. I believe the city required this due to public complaints and that construction was stalled for several months. The trailer that was blocking the bike lane and sidewalk is still around though - just moved to the vacant lot beside this one.
 
Every day that nothing happens on this site, I lose confidence that it will proceed. Financing these projects is hard enough without 2x GC departures and a big delay in the midst of rapid interest rate increases. Unless Open sky has very deep (internal) pockets, their investors would be none too happy with the state of this project.
 
Speaking with someone connected to the project, I was told that Open Sky has renewed the permit and plans to resume construction in early 2023. It sounds like they are using the current downtime to capitalize on falling material prices.

I saw some Clark Builders guys on site last month, may be a sign of what's to come.
 
skiis said:
Speaking with someone connected to the project, I was told that Open Sky has renewed the permit and plans to resume construction in early 2023. It sounds like they are using the current downtime to capitalize on falling material prices.

I saw some Clark Builders guys on site last month, may be a sign of what's to come.
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If it wasn't our resident open sky insider, I wouldn't believe it! What a turn of events.
 
The owner will have to remove the liens one by one -- either by paying the individual lien amount or contesting it in court. It should have no bearing on Clark's performance one way or the other.
 
That depends though, for not everything moves forward and not everything moves forward smoothly and without issue.

Liens do not need to be punitive or with malice, but simply par for the course between two (or more) parties that provide protection for some and a clear process forward for others.
 
To provide some insight, the situation played out for us that after Clark was removed from the project, that Open Sky was responsible for all damages and penalties incurred (in our case, paying out the remainder of our contract) but we gave EllisDon the option to takeover our existing agreement with Clark for no further cost to the developer.

Everything worked out fine for us, our scope was simple and the dollar value was overall relatively inconsequential but I could imagine a lot of other subcontractors filing liens who were in the same situation but were of higher dollar value/complexity so a lot more difficult to resolve.

PS I have not been in anyway associated with this project since EllisDon was hired on so I have no idea what happened after with all subcontractors and suppliers.
 
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