Stop us if you’ve heard this one, but the Baha Mar resort casino in the Bahamas could face further delays in completing its oft-delayed construction.
The $4.2b Baha Mar held its soft-opening in April, although it didn’t begin accepting hotel reservations for another month and only one of the property’s planned three hotels is actually ready to accept guests.
Other non-gaming amenities of Baha Mar also remain unfinished and Baha Mar’s principal contractor China Construction America (CCA) is now warning that a dispute with a US-based supplier could cause CCA to miss the government-mandated October 15 deadline for the “substantial completion” of the project.
On Monday, the Bahamas Tribune obtained legal filings in which CCA accuses a Florida-based supplier of “commercial extortion” due to its refusal to fork over 1,420 lounge chairs, representing 50% of the total number of chairs the Source Outdoor firm was contracted to deliver.