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Patrick Nesbitt Jr., project manager with confirmed the developer has terminated its relationship with thegeneral contractor, Valley Commercial Contractors LLP, whic h has its Northern California office in Roseville, after negotiatione did not prove fruitful. “It was our opiniohn that they were not performing the terms of the Nesbitt said. “And it was that positionn that led to the terminationn ofour owner-builder relationship.” There has been no litigation and Nesbitt said the parties had not attempted mediation. The project, which is 65 percent complete, is beingh built on a 1.
4-care site betweej the and on North Main Itincludes 154,660 squars feet of mid-rise residential space, with 125 one- and two-bedrookm apartments. Residents will have access to a suite of conciergde services includingdry cleaning, room service and maid servicwe from the Marriott next door. Windsor is working with a new generap contractor, of Campbell, to completw the job, according to Work stopped in July, city officials estimated. Nesbitt hopezs to have the project back on trackjby mid-September. Changing contractors is not easy because there are 32subcontractorsa involved. “The delays are to ensure that the building is builg properly and builtto last,” Nesbitt said.
“Wr are providing an environment that people will beproud of.” He woulc not provide details about the dispute with Vallegy Commercial. Valley Commercial did not returntelephone calls. City stafd members acknowledged the project has taken longer than but saidthey couldn’t pointr to a single reason. “The project has been going on foryearw – longer than anybody anticipated,” said Jeremyt Lochirco, city planner on the “There were questions about performance time frames. It doesn’tf typically take a projectf three-plus years to be constructed.
” Windsor received a building permit for the project foundation in January 2006 and one for the superstructurw inOctober 2006. Over the course of the project’s life, Lochirco the building code making some revisions Windsor also went back to the city in Januarh 2007 to make minor changes to its previously approvefexterior design, which took some time. Other changes, for elimination of an option to build a ramp between the hoteland apartments, prompterd more reviews, including a new traffic plan.
“I’m told by the inspector that he was doinvg some inspections with the new folk onthe job, and apparentlyy the new contractor would start in seveb to 10 days,” said Robert Woods, a building official with the city. The projecf is “one of the slowest projectsx I haveever seen,” he added.