LONGMONT Less than a month after Milliken-based contractor Hall-Irwin Corp. sued the owner of the new Hilton Garden Inn in Longmont alleging withheld payments related to construction of the hotel, Longmont Harvest Junction Hospitality LLC countersued with allegations that the builder failed to deliver on its contract.
“Hall-Irwin was chosen by Longmont Harvest based on Hall-Irwin’s assurances that it could deliver the project as promised, within budget and in accordance with contractual requirements and Hilton brand standards,” according to the complaint filed this month in Boulder County District Court.
That delivery didn’t occur, the hotelier alleges.
Rather, “during the course of construction of the project, Hall-Irwin was incapable of meeting the contractual requirements of completing the project on time and in a satisfactory manner,” the complaint claims. “This was extremely disappointing to Longmont Harvest, which had paid Hall-Irwin millions of dollars
LONGMONT The Best Western Plus Plaza in Longmont, which has welcomed guests for nearly four decades, could be transformed into residential housing after this month’s sale of the 210-room inn to a developer specializing in transforming hotels into apartments.
Vivo Apt Longmont LLC, a subsidiary of California-based Vivo Living, bought the 39-year-old Best Western Plus Plaza Hotel at 1900 Ken Pratt Blvd. from CO Hotel LLC, an affiliate of Chester, Virginia.-based Shamin Hotels, for $15.4 million.
At the time, Shamin said it planned to renovate the hotel and the 36,000-square-foot Plaza Convention Center, which it had agreed to manage under a deal struck with owner Chernoff Boulder Properties LLC. But less than a year after taking over management duties,