The city of Detroit filed suit last week against Pastor Marvin Winans' Perfecting Church, asking that a judge declare the property abandoned and blighted.
The future home of the famed pastor’s congregation located on a sprawling piece of prime real estate in Michigan remains incomplete after 18 years and the city has filed a lawsuit to get it done.
"We believe it’s in the church's self-interest and ours, to collect data we so far, have not received," said Mallett, an attorney for the city. "We really want to know the condition of the building. We really want a building status report given to us by licensed individuals."