Mapp Says Paul E. Joseph Stadium Not Delayed; But He Struggles To Give Restart Timeline

ST. CROIX -- The Paul E. Joseph Stadium project seems dead. There is no work being performed, even after Governor Kenneth Mapp announced that work would commence in earnest mid-October 2015. The governor had halted the project in February 2015, and said in his October press release that after months of arduous negotiations, an agreement was reached on a workable change order, resulting in a notice to proceed for the project’s contractor, GEC, LLC. “This is the beginning of a vision for the revitalization of Frederiksted that was developed through the design charrette process in 2005 while I was PFA [Public Finance Authority] director of Finance and Administration,” Mr. Mapp said in October 2015. “I want to thank the administration’s team of attorneys along with Commissioners Gustav James, Pedro Cruz and Randolph Bennett and the PFA’s consultant, Coastal Systems–USVI, for working with the representatives of GEC, LLC to get this significant project back on track.” Since then, however, th...