Red Seal Warned Group Leader Before He Sued Them

Red Seal Development, the group planning a controversial Provenance development project that will add a 137-unit development on 44 acres of the Mission Hills Country Club, sent a “cease and desist” letter to the leader of one of the groups opposed to the project one day before they were sued themselves.

Red Seal’s “cease and desist” letter was received by Mike Delmore on May 6, two days before the deadline to sue and one day before the filing of a suit requesting an injunction against the project took place, the Northbrook Star reports.

“I guess this is just a reflection of Red Seal’s inappropriate bullying,” Delmore told the Star Monday. “However, I’m a president of just one of the seven associations that filed the suit and representing 343 unit owners ... immediately adjacent to the development site.”

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Red Seal’s letter claims Delmore helped negotiate an agreement in 2014 between Red Seal and Mission Hills’ umbrella homeowners’ association to support the project, which was approved by the Cook County Board in February.

“[Red Seal] possesses compelling information demonstrating that you are taking substantial actions to interfere with the June 2014 development agreement,” the letter said. “For example, you recently told the Northbrook Star, ‘I‘ve never wanted (the development agreement), and I’ve done everything I possibly can do to stop it.’

“Moreover, the Northbrook Star reports that you are part of a consortium – Mission Hills M&T Coalition – that is contemplating a lawsuit to overturn the Cook County Board’s approval of zoning for the Provenance development. This is but a portion of the information we have gathered.”

Delmore said he was not a part of any negotiations.

“As far as I’m concerned, there was no negotiation,” he said. “It was just finding out what they were doing.”

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