Baha Mar faces further delays due to undelivered lounge chairs

Stop us if you’ve heard this one, but the Baha Mar resort casino in the Bahamas could face further delays in completing its oft-delayed construction.

The $4.2b Baha Mar held its soft-opening in April, although it didn’t begin accepting hotel reservations for another month and only one of the property’s planned three hotels is actually ready to accept guests.

Other non-gaming amenities of Baha Mar also remain unfinished and Baha Mar’s principal contractor China Construction America (CCA) is now warning that a dispute with a US-based supplier could cause CCA to miss the government-mandated October 15 deadline for the “substantial completion” of the project.

On Monday, the Bahamas Tribune obtained legal filings in which CCA accuses a Florida-based supplier of “commercial extortion” due to its refusal to fork over 1,420 lounge chairs, representing 50% of the total number of chairs the Source Outdoor firm was contracted to deliver.