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The developers of the downtown Ice District are suing the companies they contracted to work on an upscale hotel for allegedly failing to produce proper design documents.

A statement of claim filed in the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta by Ice Districts Development Partnership, Katz Group Properties Inc. and WAM EAD Limited Partnerships argues a group of architecture and design companies they contracted owe them $13.5 million. The claim argues the businesses failed to create industry-standard design documents for the downtown JW Marriott hotel.

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Alongside the Marriott hotel, the multibillion-dollar downtown redevelopment includes Rogers Place — home of the Oilers — as well as Stantec Tower, the tallest highrise in Canada outside Toronto.

In addition to failing to meet professional and JW Marriott hotel standards, the lawsuit argues Dialog Alberta Architecture Engineering Interior Design Planning Inc., Hariri Pontanari Achitects, Thornton Tomasetti, Inc. and Smith and Andersen Consulting Engineering LTD. didn’t create design documents that met bylaw and fire codes.