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The African American Contractors Association is raising concerns about unpaid bills from building the Obama Presidential Center.
The hulking mass of stone, which reportedly cost nearly $1 billion, will open this week.
However, contractors are alleging they have not been fully paid for all the work. At the same time, the chair of the Illinois Republican Party says the center’s finances could leave taxpayers on the hook for repairs down the road.
Fox News reported:
Outside the center last week, Adamson Plumbing President Mike Owen provided company spreadsheets to Fox News Digital, which he said showed that his firm is nearly $4 million in the red. He said that unnecessary rework, delays and more than 100 change-order requests left his company absorbing millions of dollars in additional costs.
In addition, Omar Shareef, the president of the African American Contractors Association, told Fox News Digital outside the center last Saturday that several Black-owned contractors are also in financial difficulty due to the project.