Missouri Theatre attempts to settle lingering debts
An offer by the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts to settle outstanding debts from its $10 million restoration project for less than the amount owed has some contractors seeing red ink.
“I have to eat $6,000,” Brad Schmitz, owner of A to Z Theatrical, said this morning. Schmitz was offered $15,000 to settle an outstanding $21,000 bill.
“We very reluctantly agreed,” he said. “We felt they had us over a barrel.”
Schmitz said it was apparently necessary for Missouri Theatre Land Co. LLC, which has been sued by several contractors, to settle up to $1.6 million in debt by last Friday in order for contributors to the project to qualify for some $3 million in federal and state historic preservation tax credits.
“It was my understanding that is why it had to be done in such a hurry,” Schmitz said of a “take it or leave it” settlement offer he received via e-mail Wednesday from general contractor Huebert Builders Inc.
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