More Denver Museum Building Woes

The Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver's new David Adjaye-designed building, which opened Oct. 28, bills itself on its website as "a fiscally responsible project. The construction cost for the new building is $16.3 million."

But fiscal responsibility appears to have declined into fiscal difficulty: Paula Moore of the Denver Business Journal reports:

Several contractors who worked on the new, $16-million Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver say they are still are trying to get paid for their work....

Museum spokeswoman Daniele Robson said Tuesday morning she had no information about any alleged nonpayment of contractors.

The project's general contractor, the Denver branch of Minneapolis-based M.A. Mortenson Co., "has not filed a lien against the museum for what it's owed on the project, and is working with the museum regarding its fee," according to Moore's report.

Other components of Denver's art museum building boom are the somewhat beleaguered recent Daniel Libeskind-designed addition to the Denver Art Museum and the planned Brad Cloepfil-designed Clyfford Still Museum, scheduled to open in 2010. That project has raised $17 million towards its $33-million capital campaign and will unveil final schematic designs next month.