Lawyers won’t stop barking about the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance’s sea lion exhibit, which is now the subject of another lawsuit.
Less than a year after the $19 million, “state-of-the-art” renovation, dubbed Schlessman Shores, was completed, the Denver Zoo sued the exhibit’s designer and general contractor, claiming the structure had rusty cages and hardware, multiple leaks, cracked areas and other defects. The lawsuit was filed in March in Denver District Court by the Denver Zoological Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates the Denver Zoo.
The general contractor and lead construction firm, Vertix Builders, has disputed the zoo’s claims. But now both parties in that suit are defendants in a subcontractor’s lawsuit that claims it hasn’t been fully paid for work on the sea lion exhibit…