Errors by architects, planners cost Hampton Inn Rochester Downtown $5M, lawsuit alleges
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.