By Lorri Helfand, Times Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
BELLEAIR — Town leaders are so disappointed with a $55,000 feasibility study of the Belleview Biltmore, they want a refund.
A few months ago, the town hired a Las Vegas consultant to find out if restoring the 114-year-old hotel is economically feasible. And if not, town officials asked StoneCreek Partners LLC to explain how other projects on the 22-acre site might impact the community.
They got neither, they say.
In a five-page letter to Donald Bredberg of StoneCreek Partners on Friday, Town Manager Micah Maxwell blasted the consultant for repeated delays, excuses and misrepresentations, calling the study a "total failure."
Maxwell informed Bredberg the report, due Sept. 8, was submitted incomplete and 22 days late. It lacked most of the information the town requested and provided "no useful guidance" for future decisions on the redevelopment of the site, Maxwell wrote ...
