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a developer’s contractors and design professionals. While innately fact-driven and evi- dence specific, 1 Palisades held that the six-year statute of limitations on a condominium association’s direct claims against a developer’s contractors and design professionals for construction defects begins to run upon the latter of six-years from: (a) substantial completion of the contractor’s work, or (b) when the “owner” knows, or should have known through the exercise of reasonable dil- igence, of the existence of a claim. Remarkably, the Palisades use of the term “owner” was not exclusive to the condominium association, but included

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