By Paul Koepp
A lawsuit by the former owner of Ice Midwest harkens back to the days when the south Overland Park facility actually had ice.
After
a brief run as a soccer and fitness operation, the building at 135th
Street and Quivira Road was rebranded this year as The Fieldhouse of
Kansas City, a gym for basketball and other sports.
The
facility’s ice plant failed in January 2011, displacing its youth
hockey leagues. Former owner Bishop Rink Holdings LLC filed a lawsuit
recently blaming that failure on the Alabama-based company that
maintained the ice, CIMCO Refrigeration Inc.
The
suit claims CIMCO negligently allowed the cooling system’s pipes to
corrode and reinserted brine that had been removed from the system,
making the pipes crack and leak ammonia.
Lyn
Shaw, who owned Ice Midwest along with her husband, oil-and-gas mogul
and former Kansas Democratic Party Chairman Dennis Langley, since has
sold the building to a group that includes Shawnee developer Tom Zarda.
Douthit
Frets Rouse Gentile & Rhodes LLC represents Bishop Rink in the
suit, which seeks more than $75,000 in damages and is pending in Kansas
federal court. Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice LLC represents CIMCO.
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