Reports suggest financial difficulties for company behind Texas Stadium implosion.
It is just nine months since A&R Demolition was headline news for its role in the implosion of the Texas Stadium. But with work halted on its contract to demolish another major sporting stadium, the company is back in the media spotlight; and this time it’s for very different wrong reasons.
Work has apparently ground to a halt on Corpus Christi’s Memorial Coliseum as city officials undertake investigations into why the contract is running behind schedule and, more worryingly, into the financial viability of the Del Valle company.
The city is reportedly working with A&R to work out the more than $30,000 it owes in fines for not getting this project done on time. There were other periods of work stoppage where city officials told us that A&R was having a tough time meeting its payroll.
The city says that A&R Demolition and its bonding company are working to hire a subcontractor to finish the work here.
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