{"id":2441828,"date":"2019-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=301871"},"modified":"2019-03-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T06:00:00","slug":"business-monday-little-cloud-home-project-listed-for-31-5-million-in-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/business-monday-little-cloud-home-project-listed-for-31-5-million-in-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Monday: Little Cloud home project, listed for $31.5 million, in litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Construction on an Aspen spec home with an asking price of $31.5 million remains unfinished after the project has lingered on for more than 31\/2 years without completion, and a lawsuit filed earlier this month casts the blame on the general contractor.<\/p>\n

Naples, Florida-based Little Cloud Estate LLC is the developer of the 10,681-square-foot home located at 19 Little Cloud Trail and rested slightly above the Midland Trail at the foot of Shadow Mountain.<\/p>\n

As the plaintiff in the lawsuit, Little Cloud Estate alleges that the general contractor, Williams & Rowe, \u201cwas unable to deliver upon its promises and was unable to complete construction of the single-family home on time and within budget,\u201d the suit alleges.<\/p>\n

Little Cloud\u2019s principal is Thomas E. Lewis, who bought two undeveloped lots on Little Cloud Trail for $3 million each in January 2008, property records show.<\/p>\n

Lewis\u2019 prior business history with Williams & Rowe included the development of a shopping center in Florida, which led to their teaming up on the Little Cloud project, the suit said.<\/p>\n

In August 2015, Little Cloud agreed to pay $6.195 million to Williams & Rowe for its services. The deal also included the contractor\u2019s agreeing to finish the project by Aug. 12, 2016.<\/p>\n

The project, however, has been hampered by workers walking off the job in the first year of construction, a constant changing of project managers, subcontractors quitting and out-of-sequence work, the suit contends.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe constant changing and replacement of subcontractors that would either leave the project or simply not show up led to another issue, namely W&R refused to keep Little Cloud informed of which subcontractors it was using despite its obligation to do so,\u201d the suit says.<\/p>\n

When it became clear the project would not be finished on time, the parties agreed in May 2016 to extend the deadline until Oct. 12, 2016.<\/p>\n

Again, the deadline was not met, while parties met over the ensuing months yet construction was marred by mismanagement and construction defects, some of which were covered up, the suit alleges.<\/p>\n

Williams & Rowe, through communications with Little Cloud, said adverse weather delayed the project, and it also filed a mechanic\u2019s lien against the developer for not being paid in full.<\/p>\n

The suit claims the lien, filed in January with an asking sum of $738,762, is fraudulent and was made to cloud the title to the property. The lien makes it \u201cas difficult as possible for Little Cloud to sell the property,\u201d the suit says.<\/p>\n

Messages left Friday with Williams & Rowe did not receive a response. Chris Brophy of the Denver firm Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, which filed the suit, also could not be reached.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed March 7 in Pitkin County District Court.<\/p>\n

rcarroll@aspentimes.com<\/p>\n

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Construction on an Aspen spec home with an asking price of $31.5 million remains unfinished after the project has lingered on for more than 31\/2 years without completion, and a lawsuit filed earlier this month casts the blame on the general contractor. Naples, Florida-based Little Cloud Estate LLC is the developer of the 10,681-square-foot home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 12:59:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}