Article: Hotel plans multimillion dollar claim for Metro Rail damage; Mid-Wilshire hotel alleges structural, financial damage. (Radisson Wilshire Plaza Hotel)

Management at the Radisson Wilshire Plaza Hotel at Wilshire Boulevard and Normandie Avenue is preparing a multimillion-dollar claim against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for damages resulting from Metro Rail construction.

In addition to a loss of customers due to construction inconvenience, the Radisson Wilshire Plaza's management alleges that Metro Rail tunneling is causing cracking and damaging the physical structure of their recently renovated hotel -- posing accident-related liability risks and leaving parts of the property looking like an earthquake fault.

"As soon as they started digging, the cracking started. This was just a little fissure at first," said ...

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