The court-appointed receiver overseeing the former Sligh Furniture Co. factory in Grand Rapids is sticking to his plan to close the 145-year-old building, despite formal pleas from three popular antique stores that have operated there for decades.
A highly anticipated Dec. 4 court ruling on the receiver’s request to close the historic building was delayed for a week, which comes as the three antique stores operating there seek to make their case to Kent County Circuit Judge Curt Benson.
John Polderman, a member of Southfield-based Stevenson & Bullock PLC’s receivership practice group, said in a Dec. 4 interview that he understands the antique shop owners’ effort to stay in the building they’ve called home for decades…