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The good Texas doctor, Jill Van Horn, who bid $6 million on the Packard Plant, needs to get her act together. Wayne County nixed her bid after she failed to pay up at the deadline. It also expressed concern about a press release she issued that was frankly, a little weird.
But she's got an explanation.
Christine MacDonald of the Detroit News writes that the doctor insists the county was intent on giving the property to the the second bidder, Chicago area developer Bill Hults, who must cough up $2 million by Thursday.
She also writes:
The Texas doctor also blamed her staff for releasing the error-ridden three-page statement Tuesday discussing Detroit’s potential for hydroelectricity and claiming she was prepared to buy all of Detroit’s vacant property, calling the statement “unscrutinized and unfortunate.”
“I really have no good explanation as to why someone on our team would submit something like that with not even using the invention called 'spell check',” she wrote in an email. "I don't mean to say that our team is not good because they are but you can't expect all investors to be spelling bee champs either. I'm not going to defend it further since I did not write it."
Her spokesman had said earlier the three pages of remarks were made by one of her representatives, Mark Day, to investors in the project.
Deadline Detroit's Jeff Wattrick wrote this on Wedneday:
Texas doctor and would-be Packard Plant owner Jill Van Horn has until sometime Wednesday to come up with the $6 million she agreed to pay for the rotting hulk of industrial ruins. In the meantime, she's busy putting out press releases that...well...lead one to question whether they should trust their family's medical care to Dr. Jill Van Horn.
The statement is officially attributed to Van Horn spokesperson Mark Day and leads off with the title "THE POSENTIAL ENERGY IN DETROIT ASSETS." Having no idea what "posential" means, I checked the dictionary. They didn't know either.
