Nike contractors file $100 million in liens over headquarters expansion
Updated 6:53 AM;
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A host of construction companies and design firms have filed liens against Nike and its general contractor claiming they’ve been shortchanged as much as $110 million for work performed on the company’s mammoth campus expansion near Beaverton.
At the top of an extraordinary list of disgruntled companies is Hoffman Construction, Nike’s go-to contractor for decades. It claims Nike owes it more than $48 million.
Skylab Architecture, another favorite of Nike, alleges it has not been paid $7.1 million.
“I think what is extraordinary here is that if you looked at the people involved in this project, you have some of the all-stars of Oregon construction,” said Darien Loiselle, a construction lawyer with Schwabe Williamson Wyatt. “The key question is, why would so many of these all-stars have similar problems getting these buildings built and then getting paid what they�