Highbridge Building: Unexpected closure leaves property owners with unfinished assignments

Home owners and employees have been left reeling following an Orléans construction firm suddenly closed its doorways, going for walks absent from 50 percent-created properties and tasks truly worth hundreds of countless numbers of bucks.

Now, people who relied on the business, Highbridge Construction, are left asking yourself if they’ll ever see that revenue yet again.

It is really tough to imagine issues having even worse for Bonny Bunda, but they just did in a incredibly major way. (Disclosure: Bunda is associated to a Bell Media Ottawa employee.)

“I understood immediately that we had been in difficulty,” Bunda reported.

Bunda is however recovering from a devastating fire that gutted her property and claimed the life of a number of animals. She hired Highbridge Building to rebuild her residence, but it has ceased operations and is just not returning her calls.

“We lost every little thing and then we dropped a small little bit much more. I do not know what steps we can get likely ahead,” she claimed.

Following months of aggravation, Bunda’s rebuild continues to be a hole and she’s now out hundreds of countless numbers of dollars. She states Highbridge instructed her the dollars was insured, but she located out Monday it is not.

“When we contacted Tarion this early morning, they said that Highbridge experienced really in no way registered our rebuild deal and, sad to say, we personally—I personally—have lost $227,000.”

A hole continues to be on Bonny Bunda’s house. She hired Highbridge Building to do repairs soon after a fire, but the perform was under no circumstances concluded and the business has ceased operations leaving her out $227,000 she states. (CTV News Ottawa)

Workers have also been still left in the lurch. Wages are outstanding and there has been quite minor facts from the business, just a locked door in Orléans.

Michelle Drapkin worked at Highbridge. She states the business had hundreds of present tasks underway and ongoing accepting new ones right up until the working day prior to its sudden closure.

“I have no idea how I am going to present for my spouse and children in the upcoming couple of months. They owe me revenue.”

All assignments are now stopped.

“The shoppers, I come to feel terrible for the prospects,” Drapkin reported. “There are thousand of people today out there that they owe money to. They’ve commenced builds and these persons, like, they have no households yet.”

CTV Information Ottawa is aware of a Glebe homeowner who is out tens of countless numbers of pounds just after their dwelling was left unfinished.

In an email acquired by Bell Media, Highbridge Design co-operator Leam Hamilton writes, “It is with enormous regret and overwhelming disappointment that we must notify you Highbridge Construction has been compelled to close its doorway and stop organization functions.”

Just a single working day earlier, organization e-mail showed personnel were available Air Miles if they waited right up until Monday to dollars their paycheques.

“They have wrecked a whole lot of people’s lives correct now and I assume they must be held accountable,” Drapkin stated.

Those people like Bunda are now remaining vacant-handed and compelled to decide on up the items.

“We have a huge gap in the floor and it truly is been a prolonged, cold wintertime, so we are going to have to regroup and come across a way to go forward,” she claimed.

Personnel say they had difficulties for months in which contractors complained about not getting paid and purchasers complained about delays in projects. Some of them under no circumstances seemed to get going in the initially position.

CTV Information reached out to Highbridge Design but did not get a reaction.

–With information from CTV’s Graham Richardson.