[msb-alumni] Re: Michigan Appeals Court Scratches $475K Award for Blind Vendor
- From: Steve <pipeguy920@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 14:00:00 -0400
BlankOnly problem is, and I'm not familiar with what is all in the Cadillac
Place Building now, but the Commission nor the State of Michigan isn't the
landlord. I understand that there are all the courts and executive offices
there, but the state signed a twenty-year lease on the building in 1998,
with the option to purchase it for a dollar after the lease ends. I think
GM set up some office development New Center Corporation TrizecHahn to own
the building.
Steve
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Seems like those leases should have already ran out by now. I remember when
we took over that building, those other restaurants were there and the first
time it was bid out that little fact was not pointed out. The last I knew
the Commission was investigating the leases of the other facilities in the
building to see when the leases ran out. But that was going on when I left
the program back in 2002. So any ten year lease should have ended before
now. Hopefully, since the Commission had a license to run a franchise with
Subway, they would train someone and put them in the Subway location there
at Cadillac Place. But then again, with the shortfalls of money, they
probably forgot about the idea and just let the current Subway owners stay.
So, actually that facility should have been paired with another vending
facility nearby to further enhance the profitability of the blind operator.
Vickie Rolison
From: Steve
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Subject: [msb-alumni] Michigan Appeals Court Scratches $475K Award for Blind
Vendor
Michigan appeals court scratches $475K award for blind food vendor
Associated Press The Michigan appeals court has thrown out a decision
awarding $475,000 to a blind man who sold food and objected to competition
at a state building in Detroit. The court says the Michigan Commission for
the Blind can't be ordered to make financial awards. It reversed a decision
by Ingham County Judge Paula Manderfield. Ron Fellows had vending machines
and sold coffee at Cadillac Place from 2005 to 2008. He was unhappy because
the state also allowed non-blind businesses to operate in the building,
including Subway. Michigan law says blind people shall operate snack shops
in state buildings. But the other businesses already had leases before the
state moved into Cadillac Place, the former headquarters of General Motors.
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