Monday, March 5, 2012

Annex crisis `grim,' Ogilvie warns

McCormick Place Trustee Richard B. Ogilvie warned his top staffyesterday the giant exposition hall is "in a grim crisis" because ofa growing shortage of time and money to finish its problem-plagued,$312 million annex.

"The situation is not hopeless," a somber Ogilvie told some 15top aides at a 45-minute weekly staff meeting.

But the former Illinois governor said he assumed most of thestaff had read yesterday's press reports about the problem McCormickPlace officials face in hunting a speedy, reasonably pricedreplacement for the electrical contractors who pulled their 200workers off the annex job last month. They charged the constructionmanagers retained by …

No comments:

Post a Comment