Article: Did project move too quickly? Park Lafayette backers say so in response to suit

By TOM DAYKIN

Three Chicago-area investors in the Park Lafayette condominium towers say the financially troubled project's second high-rise was built before a proper level of condos was sold.

That claim is made in documents filed this week in Milwaukee County Circuit Court by Richard Borkowski, John Borkowski and Edward Borkowski. They provided personal guarantees for repayment of an $87 million loan that helped finance Park Lafayette on Milwaukee's east side.

New York-based Amalgamated Bank recently filed a foreclosure suit targeting Renaissant Lafayette LLC, which owns the 281-unit Park Lafayette development at 2000-2038 N. Prospect Ave. The bank also is suing Warren Barr, president of ...

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