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Nederlanders sue in bid to
build a racetrack at state fairgrounds.
ALAN ABRAMS
Special to the Jewish News
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month after neighborhood
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versial plan floated by
developer Joe Nederlander
to move the Grand Prix car-racing
event to the Michigan State
Fairgrounds in Detroit, the
Nederlander family has filed a $40
million claim against those they
believe are responsible.
Named in the 18-page claim are the
cities of Detroit, Huntington Woods,
Ferndale and Pleasant Ridge, as well as
some individuals, neighborhood asso-
ciations, a church and the Machpelah
Cemetery Association.
J. Leonard Hyman of Hyman Lippitt
P.C. in Birmingham, attorney for the
Nederlander family project, said the
counter-complaint was filed last week
in response to a lawsuit that Detroit
Mayor Dennis Archer and the cities
surrounding the proposed development
filed earlier to block the project.
The claim seeks monetary damages
based upon the profits the
Nederlanders would have earned from
a one-mile oval speedway at the fair-
grounds, on Woodward Avenue south
of Eight Mile Road, in Detroit. The
track was part of a proposed $200-
million entertainment complex that
was to include six off-Broadway style
theaters, three hotels, restaurants, an
amphitheater, a children's theater, a
refurbished coliseum and exhibit. hall,
and an equestrian center.
Nederlander had planned to support
the complex by moving the Grand
Prix race from Detroit's Belle Isle. But
after the original lawsuit was filed, the
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Residents' Fears
Those living in the area surrounding
the fairgrounds feared the proposed
development would give rise to exces-
sive engine noise, traffic jams and
plummeting property values. That's
why residents joined the lawsuit to
block the project.
Nederlander voluntarily retreated
from the plan to build the track last
month while insisting his plans for the
remainder of the complex were still
viable. The Nederlander family oper-
ates Detroit's Fisher and Masonic the-
aters as well as theatrical venues in
New York. The Nederlanders have
leased the fairgrounds from the state
for 50 years through the family's State
Fair Development Group LLC, based
in Bloomfield Hills. Terms of the lease
required Nederlander to start building
the track next year and open it by the
end of 2002.
The 73-year-old Nederlander, a
native Detroiter, had said there would
be no more than two racing weekends
a year at the track. But even that
would be enough to disturb families
who come to see their loved ones on
Sundays at Machpelah Cemetery, a
Jewish burial ground located in nearby
Ferndale.
Jerrold M. Bigelman, of Southfield-
based Gutman & Bigelman PC, made
a statement on behalf of the cemetery
association.
"Machpelah Cemetery," he said,
was one of the numerous plaintiffs in
the initial lawsuit against the promot-
ers, due to Machpelah's concern that
its funerals and other visitation periods
by family and friends, especially on
Sundays, would be overwhelmed by
the noise of Indy cars less than two
miles away from the cemetery.
"While Machpelah has not yet seen
or been served with the counter-suit
by the promoters . . . Machpelah, nat-
urally, is concerned by its apparent sta-
tus as a defendant in the suit by the
promoters," Bigelman said.
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Mayor Archer's Response
Greg Bowens, press secretary to Mayor
Archer, told the Jewish News the
mayor is "disappointed" in the filing
of the Nederlander family's lawsuit.
He said the city and the mayor would
continue to move forward with the
city's lawsuit and defend itself in the
counter-suit.
The State of Michigan is not a party
to the counter-suit, said Susan Shafer
of Gov. John Engler's press office in
Lansing. "The only reason we're men-
tioned on there [the lawsuit by the
city] is because we own the property.
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