Halsey Minor, owner of the Landmark Hotel on the Downtown Mall, owes the city $62,766.62 in property taxes. Minor topped the list of Top 250 Delinquent Taxpayers in California, owing the state more than $13 million in personal income tax.
The money owed is “part of the bankruptcy and litigation,” Minor tells C-VILLE in an email.
Back in September, Minor filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal court in Lynchburg.
“Chapter 11 allows the debtor to consolidate litigation in a single venue. The intent here was to bring all of the litigations from Virginia and from Georgia together in one venue, so that it could be resolved more quickly than with different venues,” Aaron Curtiss, Minor’s publicist, told C-VILLE then.
All in all, Minor has eight ongoing lawsuits involving the Landmark Hotel.
Asked about plans to repay what he owes the city, Minor says that “totally depends on where the litigation goes and where the bankruptcy goes.”