First Condominium Development Co. v. Apex Construction & Engineering Corp.

This is an interlocutory appeal from the granting of First Condominium Development Company’s (First Condo) motion to stay arbitration and the denial of defendant Apex Construction & Engineering Corporation’s (Apex) motion to stay litigation in this cause.

In January 1979, First Condo began a condominium conversion project at the University Apartments on East 55th Street in Chicago. First Condo contracted with Apex for the construction of a pool, bathhouse and health club, including general contracting, plumbing, heating, ventilation, air conditioning and electrical work, “except work shown by…