Halsey Minor, the Landmark Hotel investor, has just filed suit against his former local developer partner, Lee Danielson. He’s already fired the guy, and now he is demanding $100,000 in compensatory and $350,000 in punitive damages. But, the most important details, is that Minor wants OUT of his obligation in the development agreement which is probably worth a whole lot more than the half million in the suit.
Will they settle and let Minor out of the agreement? Who knows, but it sounds like we are going to have a monster ghost building on the mall for the next two years. Anyone remember when the local government bailed out the Omni construction? You think Charlottesville will bail out the Landmark? Time will tell.
[via seevile]
Related posts:
- Charlottesville’s Halsey Minor Gets Profiled in Conde Naste’s October 2008 Portfolio Magazine
- Halsey Minor Doesn’t Get the Last Laugh [PIC]
- Bank Stops Lending to Landmark Hotel Project; Construction Halted
This seems like a departure from the last confusing post about Minor and how construction had not actually stopped and had PWN’d all the old media, etc etc.
http://cvillain.com/2008/12/05/all-the-cool-media-are-doing-it-or-the-story-of-how-halsey-minor-pwns-dumb-media/#more-2542
Told you D was a crook.
i need to start charging you royalties for that picture. it’s getting a lot of mileage
Hahahahahahaha!!! I just read the Cville’s article, a bit inappropriately snide i thought, their sniping at greatness. The difference between what we do here and what they’ve done there, is that ours are bemused and theirs are petulant-petty jabs.
I TOLD you HM was the bright-shining-lad of our collective community soul. I mocked HM when HM wasn’t cool. This guy is terrific, just terrific; what a magnificent addition to our town. We needed an eccentric and dashingly-bad-boy bazillionaire with an awful haircut; he just keeps getting better and better and better.
I assume Mr. Minor’s lackeys read these posts–is there an address to which i might send Mr. Minor a resume and praising note, hitch my wagon to a star? Could one of you drop it to me at otterdung-at-gmail?
{an aside—did everyone notice in the papers that our former bazillionaire waitress-bottoms-pinching boozer eccentric sam shepherd just got a messy DUI somewhere? poor fish; if he hadn’t abandonned us, we’d have seen him home in a cab.}
@3 – can you please sue us?
Is Halsey the most blogged about person in Charlottesville?
@5 – i would, but then parker brothers would come after me for a piece of the action.
@6
we, of course, are not a blog.
but we are doing our little all to bring HM to interweb prominence.
Does that mean HM isn’t buying drinks in the hotel bar anymore?
@9 Sure he will, I imagine him on the roof of his steel skeleton hotel with a bottle of Bourbon, as the cops try to talk him down, while he screams “top the world, ma -top of the world”. Just climb up there, say your here for your free drink and I’m sure he will give you a swig.
The Tyvek blowing in the wind is lovely.
@11 isn’t it, though? That, and those lovely green construction fences.
HM – Look for a lawsuit from Chas at The Box. Life ain’t pretty under a construction fence.
I’ve wondered how they are doing. I always mean to go by there, but am put off by walking through a dirty green cave.
@40 Ounce… not sure how that would work since The Box isn’t open yet.
Will the box open soon?
It’s opening the same day that The Landmark is due to open. Which is awesome because that’s the same date that Halley’s Comet comes around again so we can watch it from the rooftop bar… if they can get our fucking piss-soaked shit-stained nursing home beds up there.
Lee Danielson was at CDC last night and someone kept asking me to go hit on him or something. I was like, “Nooo! Why do I care about some old dude?” Maybe if it was HM I’d have gone and said something.
@17 they will be hoover nursing beds with jet packs by then! Plus they will have built in nano roombas that will clean up. The only problem will be if the box turns out to be dry- um I mean doesn’t serve booze.
I fully expect my box to be dry in 2061.I mean why put out the best china if you don’t have any guests coming?
@9
the hotel bar, says the Cville article, is to be called MINOR’S. hahahahahahahahahahaha.
@18
i think HM and LeeD are roughly the same age, but LD is cash-liquid, and betting around here seems to suggest he’ll win The LandMark lawsuit. If he doesn’t, one assumes the luxury hotel-chain in Dubai called The Landmark will later sue HM for trademark infringement.
if HM has what few $$$ remain to him tied-up in lawsuits, and no credit, or art to sell, does that mean through neglect that his haircut will get even WORSE?
Odd that he doesn’t comment on Cvillain so much anymore; you’d think with no construction going on and all his businesses in receivership or tied up in litigation, he’d have plenty of time on his hands.
@ 21 Don’t count HM out so quickly, Otter. What did epic failure and bad hair got Rod Blagojevich ? Thats right. A six figure book deal. Just sayin.
/ “Minor Improvement – The HM Story”, on shelves soon…
@22 Also there’s a musical about him now.
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117939659.html?categoryid=33&cs=1
Blagojevich, not HM. Just clarifying.
And judging by the fact that all the barriers are coming down around the Landmark, I’m guessing we’re never getting the Landmark Hotel. But it will make a sweet urban playground!
@22 How about this for an autobiog title…. “Having no money left…. a Minor inconvenience”
Partied with Lee a little last night cuz he’s in town for court w/ Mr. Minor. I wonder how things panned out?
@26 What? Nighttime comments and you party with old dudes.
I’m confused
@28: 30 year old Shen is a hustler baby
Who wants to bid on The Landmark bungee-jumping concession?