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A SKANSKA USA COMPANY December 5, 2001 Mr. Frank W. Clifton, Jr.. County Manager Cabarms County, NC Goverruncntal Center P.O. Box 707 Concord, NC 282064)707 RE: Concord/Speedway Hotel at Performance Park Concord, NC Dear Mr. Clifton: As requested I am formally requesting to you and the County Commissioners to review a possible refund of our building permit expense for the referenced project. By way of some brief history regarding the project, this was a very tdgh-cnd conference hotel which was to be built at the referenced site next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway. This project has been in the making now for over three years. The ownership of the project has also changed hands on more than one occasion. The closest it came to being built was a little less that a year ago and around the time we applied for, paid for and picked up our building permit for this project. However, the project is now not going to be built in the near foreseeable future, and therefore the building permit will not be used and our expense will have been for nothing. The building permit fee for this project was approximately $60,000.00. We have paid the permit fee to Cabarrus County, but have been unable to be reimbursed for this fee from the Owner group. It appears unlikely we will ever be reimbursed from the Owner group since, once again, the Ownership for the project has changed hands. We are hopeful this project will come back someday, however with the current state of the economy, we are in no position as to even guess as to when that may be. We do know the prospective new Ownership group well and remain hopeful that the project will come back, and will stand ready to build the project if and when that time comes. We also realize that, at that time, the building permit process will have to begin all over again, including fees. Attached is a copy of all pertinent building permit information including the permit itself. Also attached is a copy of our cancelled check with which we paid for the permit. As you can see the permit was obtained on 3/28/2001. My first contact with Cabarms County after fflooked fairly sure that this project would in fact not be built any time soon, and the prospects for getting built any time in the near future seemed dim, was with Mr. Mike Downs with the Permit's Department. As it turned out the date I had contacted Mr. Downs was shortly after the expiration period for Cabbarms County permits, the time frame for which I was unaware, which was six months. I contacted Mr. Downs approximately late September or early October 2001. Mr. Downs informed me that in fact the permit had expired since it was just past six months after the permit was obtained. Mr. Downs informed me that I could possibly appeal to you, the County Manager and see what other options there may be. I do apologize for taking so much time between when I contacted Mr. Downs and my making contact with you via telephone earlier today, December 5, 2001. On behalf of Beers Construction I certainly do appreciate your consideration on this matter and your taking it up with the County Commissioners to review the possible refund of the approximate $60,000.00 permit fee which we have expended and have no hope of getting reimbursed. We do understand that there was some time and effort put forth on the part of Caharms County permit review staff to review the project and Beers Construction Company 1229 Greenwood Cliff, Suite 200 * Charlotte, North Carolina 28204 · 704-409-2200 · 704-~0~9-2208 FAX