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Do I hear $3.6M? Landmark Hotel bidders chosen w/o Lee
Published on Jun 14th, 2012
10 comments If developer Lee Danielson had any hope of making the winning bid for the shell of the Landmark Hotel he helped erect with partner Halsey Minor, they were dashed today. A document filed in the US...
Landmark move: Hotel shell bids due in early June
Published on Jun 4th, 2012
2 comments As Williamsburg-area officials prepare one Halsey Minor mansion for sale and as the embattled internet financier himself tries to unload his San Francisco version of the Petit Trianon along with his...
Danielson's back? Billionaire's backing enthuses Landmark creator
Published on Mar 20th, 2012
20 comments   Related stories • Indigence plea: Halsey Minor's assets don't include cash • Free at last? Govt-owned bank wins control of Landmark hotel • Minor filing: Halsey files bankruptcy for Landmark...
Free at last? Govt-owned bank wins control of Landmark hotel
Published on Jan 20th, 2011
26 comments Minor and Danielson at the 2008 groundbreaking. FILE PHOTO BY JAY KUHLMANN Three years after ground was broken and two years after lawsuits began flying, the towering skeleton of the planned...
Minor filing: Halsey files bankruptcy for Landmark hotel
Published on Sep 2nd, 2010
26 comments Halsey Minor, left, has been sparring with developer Lee Danielson. FILE PHOTOS BY HAWES SPENCER AND JAY KUHLMANN The company owned by bi-coastal Internet millionaire Halsey Minor to develop the...
Danielson trumped: Minor wins in Landmark hotel arbitration
Published on Jul 1st, 2010
18 comments Minor and Danielson during happier times at the groundbreaking of the Landmark. FILE PHOTO BY JAY KUHLMANN Back in February, some may have scoffed when liquidity-challenged business tycoon Halsey...
Danielson-Minor feud: Two trade barbs after arbitration
Published on Apr 27th, 2010
59 comments Minor and Danielson have traded lawsuits over their unfinished Landmark hotel. FILE PHOTOS BY HAWES SPENCER, JAY KUHLMANN After a week spent inside some Omni hotel conference rooms putting on...
Landmark list: Minor atop California taxpayer delinquencies
Published on Apr 13th, 2010
11 comments Minor, Danielson, and the Landmark. PHOTOS BY JAY KUHLMANN, HAWES SPENCER Halsey Minor, the CNet-founding millionaire whose Midas touch has been tarnished by a series of setbacks including the...
Tower tangle: Judge limits Minor suit against Danielson
Published on Feb 18th, 2010
22 comments The Tyvek tower flaps in the breeze on the day of the hearing. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER; FILE PHOTOS JAY KUHLMANN The tussle over the unfinished Landmark Hotel entered a new chapter Wednesday, as...
As expected, Minor refiles against Danielson
Published on Dec 16th, 2009
4 comments At least some of it isn't redacted. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER As expected, internet titan Halsey Minor has refiled his lawsuit against Lee Danielson, the developer of the stalled Landmark hotel, and...
Courthouse steps: Minor facing million-dollar foreclosure
Published on Dec 1st, 2009
41 comments "This may be a squeeze-play to get him out of the farm," says real estate expert Gibson, "but I don't think he's gonna be homeless." FARM PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER; FILE PHOTO JAY KUHLMANN Halsey Minor...
Fraud dismissed: But Halsey Minor wins refiling right
Published on Nov 20th, 2009
23 comments "It was not a 100 percent victory," says Danielson's attorney, Connor Crook. PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER "The truth is out there," said the lawyer fighting for a right to re-file the high-profile hotel...
Lawsuits galore: Minor v. Danielson hearing Friday
Published on Nov 19th, 2009
16 comments Minor and Danielson during happier times at the groundbreaking of the Landmark. FILE PHOTO BY JAY KUHLMANN Lawyers for formerly entwined hotel-makers Halsey Minor and Lee Danielson will be in court...
Thain's bane? Minor hit with harassment order
Published on Sep 8th, 2009
37 comments Halsey Minor speaks in happier times. FILE PHOTO BY JAY KUHLMANN Halsey Minor says he was merely trying to warn Bank of America that it was getting a bad deal when it agreed to buy troubled...
Loan hark: FDIC officially axes Landmark lender
Published on Jun 5th, 2009
9 comments According to the FDIC, the most likely answer to the question the Hook posed on its cover in April just got a little murkier with the FDIC now beginning to sell off failed lender Silverton Bank's...
He said/he said: Danielson sues; Minor speaks out
Published on May 15th, 2009
18 comments Halsey Minor (left) and Lee Danielson (right) were friendlier when they broke ground on the Landmark Hotel on March 11, 2008 with Mayor Dave Norris. FILE PHOTO BY JAY KUHLMANN After going quiet for...
The big chill: Danielson and Rolph's split final
Published on Oct 3rd, 2002
0 comments The men who remade downtown Charlottesville have severed the last of their ties. After a blistering lawsuit that included charges of bullying so profound that an accountant was allegedly reduced to...