By most standards, developer Cameron Group LLC appears to be an excellent prospect as a client: It has an impressive portfolio of malls, and its principals have gleaming résumés, many acquired while working at The Pyramid Cos., a Syracuse, N.Y.-based developer.
So, when Cameron needed mechanical and electrical drawings for a long-delayed new retail development that the firm hoped would transform a weedy parcel in Mission, Kan., Henderson Engineers Inc. went to work for a Cameron corporation, The Gateway Developers LLC. Henderson claims it finished the drawings in late 2012 and billed $405,690.70.