The luxury condominium building Riverhouse in lower Manhattan has attracted considerable attention since it opened in 2007, usually in regard to such things as celebrity residents or a management power struggle over slow sales. But the latest news from Riverhouse, an environmentally friendly building that is a candidate for LEED Gold, has taken the legal and architecture communities by surprise: The owners of a condo in the building have filed a lawsuit charging fraud, misrepresentation, and breach of contract because Riverhouse allegedly does not meet its much-touted sustainability-performance standards.
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