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Errors by architects, planners cost Hampton Inn Rochester Downtown $5M, lawsuit alleges
Errors by architects, planners cost Hampton Inn Rochester Downtown $5M, lawsuit alleges
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When the Hampton Inn & Suites Rochester Downtown opened last summer, Indus Hospitality Group, Inc. was proud to show off the finished product, a hallmark property within the newly created Neighborhood of Play.
Now, however, the Penfield-based hospitality firm alleges the hotel actually opened a year late because of defects, deficiencies, errors and omissions in plans by the firms supplying architectural, engineering and structural planning services.
In a complaint filed Wednesday in state Supreme Court in Monroe County, Indus South Union Street LLC, a subsidiary of Indus Hospitality Group, alleges those failures by CJS Architects, LLP and Stantec Consulting Services Inc. resulted in losses of at least $5 million.
The issues were caused by “CJS’s and Stantec’s neglect and failure to properly design the project,” the complaint alleges, and included:
» “[D]efective, incomplete and lacking internal coordination and consistency” with the design and drawings for the structural steel and pre-cast concrete plan components.
» A failure “to develop floor plans for upper floor levels of the hotel utilizing standard room and suite layouts provided (online) by Hilton;”
» “Repeated and extended delays” in review of pre-cast concrete plank shop drawings and calculations, structural steel shop drawings and light gauge metal framing shop drawings;
The complaint, filed by attorneys Chad W. Flansburg and Michael R. Staszkiw of Phillips Lytle LLP, also includes a 156-item list of errors, omissions or delays caused by CJS Architects and/or Stantec.
The hotel was scheduled to open on June 27, 2022, but construction wasn’t completed until June 15, 2023, court papers say. That led to cost overruns and a loss of revenue from a functioning hotel.
“CJS and Stantec negligently failed to, among other things, prepare, review and complete the plans and specifications related to the project, improperly released the plans and specifications for bidding for the project, failed to properly and accurately define the scope of work to bidders, failed to properly supervise and inspect, failed to timely complete work, failed to coordinate, all without the ordinary and reasonable care and skill normally exercised by architectural and engineering professionals,” the complaint says.
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