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Court Gives Tavern at Tina's Owners Until Sept. 24 to Build Bypass Lane on North Avenue

A status conference was held Aug. 29 between Macomb Township and the owners of the Tina's properties on North Avenue regarding a breach in the pair's January 2011 consent judgment.

 

A Macomb County Circuit Court judge has ordered the owners of Tina’s Country House and The Tavern at Tina’s to build a southbound bypass lane opposite their property on North Avenue by Sept. 24 or face legal consequences, according to court documents.

Judge James Biernat, Jr. issued the order Wednesday morning following a status conference between the parties involved in the case of TTCH Development LLC vs. Macomb Township.

This conference was held to address a breach in the January 2011 consent judgment signed by owners of the Tina’s properties (TTCH Development) and Macomb Township following some three years of legal disputes. Per the consent judgment, Tina’s owners, sisters Cathy and Mary Jo Imbronone, had until June 1 to build a bypass lane on the west side of North Avenue.

When the deadline passed and the work was not completed, Macomb Township's legal counsel asked the court to hold TTCH Development in comtempt of court and costs. The judge agreed to give TTCH Development until Sept. 24 at 11 a.m. to engage a contractor to perform the work as described in plans approved by the Macomb County Department of Roads (i.e. a southbound bypass lane on North Avenue south of 23 Mile Road).

Should the bypass lane not be completed on or before Sept. 24, the judge ordered TTCH Development to immediately contact the court with an updated report.

Related Topics: Local Business, Macomb County Circuit Court, TTCH Development, and Tavern at Tina's

Kevin Karwowicz

8:39 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012

Has anyone noticed that our own township hall,has NO turn lane, street light or sidewalk crossing? OR the "Concert in the park" football, lacrosse, multisport fields have no turn lane? Does Randazzo's nursery have a turn lane? Do the farm stands down 23 mile? Open your eyes residents, it's right in front of you!

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HappyVoter

12:56 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012

As soon as those sites are found to be in violation of a binding legal agreement, then your comments may be valid. Also, those sites you mentioned aren't at the corner of a busy intersection like 21/North. Keep sucking up to Cathy and Mary Jo, Kevin, maybe the third time will be the charm and you'll be elected to something of consequence someday. If you start your own one-man club and run for president, I give you a 50-50 chance of winning.

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truthfulvoter

1:31 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012

Happy voter must work in clerks dept or colonial sander aka Michael koehs himself. How many spoiled ballots did macomb have? Calculations show some 1700 missing votes? Guess whose pac was counting absentee ballots? And spoiling them as they came in.
The truth will come. Soon.

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Jenny Whalen

2:59 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012

For whatever it is worth, I accidentally spoiled my ballot by voting for two probate judges instead of one. Primaries generally have a higher spoiled ballot rate than general election because of the split ticket rule.

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Bruce Dickinson

4:28 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012

Kelvin "Kook"wowicz, you're comparing Broughton Rd. with 23 & North Ave? Are you nuts? If the malcontents at Tina's put half the effort of complying with the consent judgement as they did in their ill fated campaign, they wouldn't be in this situation. The Twp. complied in 90 days, Tina's hasn't complied in 20 months. I'm sure, the Twp., the County , the Health Dept., and the Road Comm, are all conspiring against them. The election is over, you all lost. Now Kelvin, get a job and quit running for offices that you'll never win! Good Times.

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HappyVoter

4:42 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012

@"truthful"voter... yes, the truth will come soon, now that the Johnson Gang is going to have to defend themselves in the countersuit to their sham lawsuit claiming election fraud. We'll see how long it takes Stooge Maiuri, the Imbronone sisters, Mark Grabow, Charles Missig, and Big Johnson to start pointing fingers at each other over who's at fault. They'll probably all blame Kevin, and he'll just get on here and tell us to open our eyes...I think some people just don't realize that their house of cards has already collapsed. When you build your story on lies, deception, half-truths, and fantasy, once one part of it unravels the rest soon follows.

Interesting that nobody put out a press release when the township filed their countersuit just before Stooge Maiuri's attorney tried to withdraw his suit (side note: if these allegations of serious fraud were true, why would you withdraw your suit after the election? wouldn't proving your point invalidate the election and get your people in?). I heard that the press releases from Imbronone, Grabow and Missig all said the same thing: "Oh (Crap)!"

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Andrea

4:50 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012

Bruce Dickinson, those are some rude and mean-spirited comments. I don't know why you (or anybody on this chain) have to write such pointed and personal attacks.

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Nathan

5:30 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012

As a small business owner in Macomb Twp, I don't see why they don't leave Tina's alone. Isn't the city supposed to be supporting local businesses, not hurting them? All i hear is they are in violation of this and that, and to be honest with you, as a patron of Tina's, it appears like they run a GREAT operation. I hope to open up a business like Tina's one day, but I sure won't consider Macomb Twp, due to the trouble they are occuring.

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Jenny Whalen

7:10 pm on Thursday, August 30, 2012

No personal attacks please. Thanks.

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Frank Cusumano

8:19 pm on Friday, August 31, 2012

I heard from someone who was in Court one day that when Tina's Tavern said they could not comply because they didn't have the money, the Judge quipped, "then how much money do you have for all those signs I see everywhere." Well, that is a campaign right? So those may be donations. But wait, the Macomb County Clerk's office shows a loan from Cathy Imbronone to her own campaign. http://campaignfinance.macombcountymi.gov/IndexedDocs/48315250.PDF

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