Cleanup of 50 percent-constructed motels around West Michigan mall remaining pursued by township officials
MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI – Now that it has an enforceable blight ordinance, Fruitport Township is demanding action from the operator of two 50 %-built and deteriorating resorts.
Township Supervisor Todd Dunham stated the owner of the motels, Stellar Hospitality of Auburn Hills, not long ago was educated it was in violation of the ordinance and given 10 days to reply with its designs for the neighboring hotel constructions.
The proprietor should reply by this week or lawful motion will be pursued, Dunham instructed MLive.
“They never connect with me again. They won’t speak to me,” Dunham said.
MLive was not able to attain Stellar Hospitality CEO Malik Abdulnoor for comment.
The motels are positioned on Sternberg Highway near The Lakes Mall in a busy searching spot. They’re also in the vicinity of the web page of a planned on line casino.
Design on the hotels was halted in June 2019 as the end result of a thriving non-compete lawsuit brought by Parkland Properties, which owns the Delta Marriott and Shoreline Inn accommodations in downtown Muskegon.
“They have to be torn down,” Dunham claimed. “It’s a disgrace to go away us that kind of mess.”
Dunham was elected in November 2020. Upon getting office environment in January, he claimed he realized the township needed a new blight ordinance.
That ordinance was passed by the township board in February.
Dunham said township residents are fed up.
“I get phone calls and pictures despatched to me on a each day foundation,” he stated.
The two motels on which design started in 2018 were being established to be a Holiday getaway Inn Convey and a City Spot Suites by Marriott with an opening date in fall 2019.
Parkland Homes, owned by Jon Rooks, submitted a lawsuit alleging violations of a non-contend agreement stemming from Rooks’ purchase of the Marriott – at the time a Getaway Inn – from Abdulnoor.
Rooks ordered the Holiday Inn Muskegon Harbor, 939 Third St. in downtown Muskegon, for more than $6 million in June 2013 from an possession team that integrated Abdulnoor, according to courtroom files.
The obtain incorporated a non-contend arrangement that stops the sellers from owning, functioning or being included in any way in a lodge company inside of 14 miles of the Holiday Inn Muskegon Harbor right until 2028, according to court paperwork.
Stellar bought the house, positioned 6 miles from the downtown hotel, in March 2017, and building commenced on the hotels at 1951 and 1989 E. Sternberg Road in summer 2018.
Abdulnoor funded most of the job but took a “silent role” and didn’t place his name on any general public paperwork, Rooks told MLive earlier.
Rooks identified Abdulnoor’s involvement as a result of the Worldwide Hotel Group, which granted the Town Area and Holiday Inn franchises to Abdulnoor and his business spouse.
Rooks’ attorneys in March 2019 submitted the lawsuit from Abdulnoor and other operator and operator parties for violating the non-contend arrangement. Development stopped on the two resorts shortly after the match was filed.
Muskegon County Circuit Judge Timothy Hicks dominated in June 2019 that the planned Getaway Inn and City Position violate the non-compete arrangement, according to court paperwork.
Rooks instructed MLive he imagined the buildings could be turned into flats.
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