Contractor seeks $9 million from owners of Lake Tahoe Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

SMC Construction Company has filed paperwork in Douglas County Court, seeking payment of $9,654,575.02 they say Neva One, LCC, and Jon and David Park still owe them on construction of the Hard Rock Casino & Hotel in Stateline, Nevada.

The detailed legal documents state that SMC Construction and Neva One, LLC had come to the agreement of $9,645,121 for the remodel on the former Horizon Casino on August 6, 2014. Updated plans changed hands several times, even after the work began according to the paperwork filed in court.

SMC states that while the scope of the job changed, and those changes more than doubled the amount of work, Neva One did not double the time frame in which to complete the project.

The suit makes the following claim about the extra work: "It caused the performing contractor and its subcontractors to incur overtime, additional manpower on the job, trades were working on top of and around other trades, inefficiencies caused by work conditions, fatigue of workers incurred as a result of extended overtime hours,and the incurrence of the resulting incalculable and unknown anticipated and discussed extraordinary costs, all resulting from the owner's consistent, constant, substantial and cardinal changes in scope of work even through January of 2015."

The final bill for the project was $18,915,749.

“We have been seeking to resolve this directly with the contractor, and would have preferred to go this route rather than litigation,” Jon Park of Neva One, LLC, the owner of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Lake Tahoe sent in a statement to South Tahoe Now. “We hope to resolve the close-out issues as soon as we can.”