The giant scrap pile along the waterfront in Providence is impossible to miss as you drive north on Route 95. It is also the target of a lawsuit filed in 2012 by Patrick Conley, who owns an historic building adjacent to the property – and at times a 70-foot mountain of scrap – owned by Sims Metal Management . Conley has been waiting more than four years for his day in court – to show a judge and jury the damage he says Sims has done to his building: causing cracks, forcing out tenants and making some parts of the structure unusable. So why the delay?
