A Quebec steel firm is preventing the completion of New York?s tallest skyscraper, according to a lawsuit filed here on Friday.
The government agency that owns the World Trade Center site alleges that ADF Steel Corp. is refusing to deliver the steel required for the antenna that sits atop the building, previously dubbed the Freedom Tower.
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That shipment is the only steel that remains to be installed at 1 World Trade Center, the suit says.
ADF is holding the materials ?hostage? until ?it receives approximately $6-million ([U.S.] allegedly owed under another contract for another project, as ransom,? the complaint alleges.
A shining column of glass and steel towering over the Manhattan skyline, 1 World Trade Center is the chief symbol of the decade-long effort to rebuild the area devastated in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
ADF Steel is a U.S. subsidiary of Canada?s ADF Group Inc. Based in Terrebonne, Que., the 56-year-old firm has supplied steel for everything from a stadium in Baltimore to Toronto?s Lester B. Pearson International Airport.
ADF did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Friday?s lawsuit, filed in New York Supreme Court, refers to the approaching Canadian winter. If ADF does not ship the giant steel parts for the antenna by December, the St. Lawrence river will freeze, the suit asserts, making delivery impossible until spring.
ADF is responsible for supplying ?unique and indispensable pieces of steel for a project of preeminent national importance,? the complaint claims. With the antenna, the skyscraper will stand 1,776 feet (541.2 meters) tall, a nod to the year the U.S. declared its independence from Britain.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the World Trade Center site, has asked the court to order ADF to deliver the steel.
Curiously, ADF is not the only Canadian firm involved in the brouhaha. An arm of Toronto?s Davis Construction Management Group is responsible for erecting the steel in various parts of the World Trade Center site, the suit says, and was embroiled in a contract dispute with ADF over payments and delivery times for the project.
Representatives of Davis Construction also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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