Bankrupt Pa. amusement park sold for $1.2 million
Updated Mar 02, 2021;
Posted Mar 02, 2021
The Conneaut Lake Park sign is shown in this 2018 file photo. A bankruptcy court judge in Pittsburgh approved the sale of the park Tuesday morning to Keldon Holdings LLC, of the Philadelphia area.
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By Jim Martin, Erie Times-News (TNS)
CONNEAUT LAKE – All the pieces and parts of 129-year-old Conneaut Lake Park – the Hotel Conneaut, the Blue Streak roller coaster and nearly 200 acres of property, some of it beachfront – will soon be in the hands of a new owner.
Pittsburgh-based U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Jeffery A. Deller approved the sale Tuesday morning of the publicly owned park, which has been working through Chapter 11 bankruptcy, to Keldon Holdings LLC for $1.2 million. Keldon is a holding company based in the Philadelphia area.
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The Crack’d Egg, a Brentwood restaurant that is embroiled in a legal dispute with Allegheny County, is seeking to withdraw its separate Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.
A hearing on the bankruptcy matter is scheduled for Feb. 23.
In the Monday filing, the restaurant’s attorneys wrote that the Chapter 11 bankruptcy “was filed primarily due to a dispute between the debtor and the Allegheny County Health Department regarding debtor’s compliance with ACHD cover guidelines.”
In August, the health department ordered the Brownsville Road restaurant to close because it refused to follow the governor’s state mandated covid-19 mitigation measures requiring masks and social distancing.
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An Allegheny County judge on Friday ordered an evidentiary hearing in the county health department’s request for an immediate injunction against a Brentwood restaurant continuing to operate despite closure orders issued more than five months ago.
Attorneys for the Allegheny County Health Department asked Judge John McVay to enforce an Aug. 11 closure order against the Crack’d Egg – an order issued for the restaurant’s repeated flouting of covid-19 mitigation measures in place since early last year.
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A federal judge ruled Thursday that Allegheny County may proceed with legal action against a Brentwood restaurant defying covid-19 mitigation orders despite a pending bankruptcy action.
The county health department ordered the Crack’d Egg to close in August for failing to follow universal masking and social distancing measures. However, restaurant owner Kimberly Waigand flouted the order and continued to operate.
In September, attorneys for Allegheny County filed an action against the restaurant for the ongoing violations, but it was automatically stayed when Waigand filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October.
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PITTSBURGH – Allegheny County’s Health Department is looking to dismiss a complaint filed by a Pittsburgh restaurant which sued it for its allegedly unconstitutional enforcement of COVID-19 emergency orders and further stop it from being sent to bankruptcy court.
The Cracked Egg, LLC of Pittsburgh first filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Sept. 23 versus Allegheny County and the Allegheny County Health Department, of Pittsburgh.
The Cracked Egg is a family restaurant in the Brentwood section of Pittsburgh, which argues it was negatively affected by Gov. Tom Wolf’s disaster emergency declarations and other orders associated with the coronavirus pandemic in March.