CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Epicentre developer Afshin Ghazi says he is not to blame for people who haven't been paid for working on the uptown Charlotte party spot.

Meanwhile, more people are coming forward and claiming they haven't been paid either. Workers say they're owed millions of dollars, caught in the middle.

"There's a gap somewhere, something is missing," said Christy Broome-Hunt with All American Overhead Door.

Ghazi blames contractor Advanced Construction and Consulting for workers not getting paid. Ghazi says individual

Epicentre tenants hired and paid ACC and that ACC hasn't paid people like Broome-Hunt. She says she's out $7,900 and that contributed to layoffs.

"When we have any type of money crunch, we don't have the capital to be able to revamp that," Broome-Hunt said.

ACC, on the other hand, says Ghazi owes them $1.8 million for unpaid work and filed liens against Ghazi to get it.

So who do you believe? We listened to a phone call Wednesday from a man claiming to work for Ghazi asking Reliable Electric to finish its work at the Epicentre. Reliable says it's already owed and hasn't been paid $25,000 from work it already did at the Epicentre.

Reliable refused to do more work without getting paid.

"Is this standard operating business procedure in the construction realm?" we asked.

"Absolutely not," said Reliable Electric President John Gilmer.

That caller said he offered the job to Reliable first. Then, we listened to another phone call. The same guy, we're told, who claimed to work for Ghazi called a different company, Republic Electric, and asked them to finish it.

Republic refused, saying it's owed $700,000 for work done at the Epicentre. Republic Electric called Reliable Electric to let them know about the phone call.

"Props to Republic Electric for actually saying no," Gilmer said.

Subcontractors say that caller is fishing for help so the Epicentre can get finished.

But since contractors are still owed all that money, no pay means no help for the Epicentre to complete all of its code inspections.

A letter from code enforcement says the Epicentre won't get its certificate of occupancy until everything is up to code. Right now, it is operating under temporary certificates of occupancy.

Ghazi told NewsChannel 36 he's not worried about the occupancy status of the Epicentre.

ACC's response to Ghazi's allegation is they not only disagree, but intend to prove Ghazi is wrong.