Post by 50yardfan on Aug 11, 2011 13:29:13 GMT -5
Doors locked at Saginaw Plaza Hotel on Wednesday, no word on when or if it will reopen
www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2011/08/doors_locked_at_saginaw_plaza.html
SAGINAW — The Saginaw Plaza Hotel & Convention Center was closed Wednesday night, with no doors open and no employees in sight.
And the father of one of the hotel’s workers said his daughter informed him Tuesday that the 170-room hotel across from The Dow Event Center has shut down.
Carlos Cisneros, 54, of Saginaw Township said his 17-year-old daughter was shorted when she received her pay Tuesday — in an envelope containing cash.
“My daughter said there was a sign at the hotel when she got there on Tuesday that said the place was closed,” Cisneros said. “She went to retrieve her check and get her pay, and a co-worker handed her an envelope with cash in it, and there wasn’t enough money for all the hours that she worked.”
No "Closed" signs were visible Wednesday at the hotel, 400 Johnson, when a Saginaw News reporter arrived to find all doors locked.
The doors to The Crowne Pub, a tavern inside the hotel, were locked, and the hotel’s automated front doors didn’t open, either. No worker was visible inside the lobby or elsewhere at the facility.
In March, a hotel employee told The News that Mike Esposito, general manager of the Saginaw Sting football team, owns the hotel. The News could not reach Esposito by telephone Wednesday night.
Cisneros declined to name his daughter, who has worked at the hotel for about six weeks this summer, he said.
He said his daughter told him other workers at the hotel also didn’t receive the proper amount of pay they had coming from the hotel, which has fallen under seven different managers since 1980.
Cisneros said his daughter “told us a lot of other people got shorted a lot more money than she did, and these are people who are grown, and who probably have rent, car payments, heat and electricity bills and everything else.”
Esposito told a News reporter in March that he was unable to talk about any ownership of the hotel. The hotel’s previous owner, Satish Shethi, also did not return phone calls then.
Shethi’s Chicago-based investment team took over managing the hotel in May 2009 when the group re-opened the former Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel and Conference Center after a foreclosure against the previous owner shuttered the complex for three years.
The Saginaw Sting, managed by Esposito, played home football games earlier this year inside The Dow Event Center. The Sting is one of the teams in the Ultimate Indoor Football League.
www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2011/08/doors_locked_at_saginaw_plaza.html
SAGINAW — The Saginaw Plaza Hotel & Convention Center was closed Wednesday night, with no doors open and no employees in sight.
And the father of one of the hotel’s workers said his daughter informed him Tuesday that the 170-room hotel across from The Dow Event Center has shut down.
Carlos Cisneros, 54, of Saginaw Township said his 17-year-old daughter was shorted when she received her pay Tuesday — in an envelope containing cash.
“My daughter said there was a sign at the hotel when she got there on Tuesday that said the place was closed,” Cisneros said. “She went to retrieve her check and get her pay, and a co-worker handed her an envelope with cash in it, and there wasn’t enough money for all the hours that she worked.”
No "Closed" signs were visible Wednesday at the hotel, 400 Johnson, when a Saginaw News reporter arrived to find all doors locked.
The doors to The Crowne Pub, a tavern inside the hotel, were locked, and the hotel’s automated front doors didn’t open, either. No worker was visible inside the lobby or elsewhere at the facility.
In March, a hotel employee told The News that Mike Esposito, general manager of the Saginaw Sting football team, owns the hotel. The News could not reach Esposito by telephone Wednesday night.
Cisneros declined to name his daughter, who has worked at the hotel for about six weeks this summer, he said.
He said his daughter told him other workers at the hotel also didn’t receive the proper amount of pay they had coming from the hotel, which has fallen under seven different managers since 1980.
Cisneros said his daughter “told us a lot of other people got shorted a lot more money than she did, and these are people who are grown, and who probably have rent, car payments, heat and electricity bills and everything else.”
Esposito told a News reporter in March that he was unable to talk about any ownership of the hotel. The hotel’s previous owner, Satish Shethi, also did not return phone calls then.
Shethi’s Chicago-based investment team took over managing the hotel in May 2009 when the group re-opened the former Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel and Conference Center after a foreclosure against the previous owner shuttered the complex for three years.
The Saginaw Sting, managed by Esposito, played home football games earlier this year inside The Dow Event Center. The Sting is one of the teams in the Ultimate Indoor Football League.