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CAMDEN - Two subcontractors on the construction of Campbell's Field have filed liens totaling more than $600,000 against the riverfront ballpark, claiming they have not been paid for services they performed at the site.
Parson Associates of Magnolia filed a $513,000 lien seeking payment of the electric work the company did at Campbell's Field. Harkins & Harkins Mechanical Ser ices Inc. of Lansdowne, Pa., filed a $99,941 hen seeking payment for the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system it installed at the stadium.
Both firms maintain they are owed money from Quaker Construction Management Inc., a unit of the Voorheesbased Quaker Group, which was the lead builder of the ballpark. Quaker Group President Stephen Shilling also heads Camden Baseball LLC, the group that owns the Camden Riversharks.
Shilling said the delay in payments to the subcontractors, as well as to his own firm, is because of the longer-thanexpected time it has taken to complete the final portion of the project's original financing plan.
That final piece is the issuance of $7 million in tax-exempt bonds by the...