Ex-Ski Area Operator Accuses Connecticut Town, Officials Of Wrestling Away Ownership Of 278 Acre Property; Files Suit Seeking $11M In Damages

In Middlefield, Connecticut, The Middletown Press reports:

• The former Powder Ridge operator and his family announced [last week] that they have filed a lawsuit against the town of Middlefield and several of its officials after they used “bully tactics” to take over the approximately 278 acres where the former ski area once stood.

• Ken Leavitt, who has spent the last seventeen years of his life purchasing, developing and maintaining the Powder Ridge Ski Area, said he is seeking, among other things, $9 million from the town and $2 million in damages from an investment company, Middlefield Holdings, LLC.

• “While operating Powder Ridge for ten seasons, certain town officials who had their own personal designs on the ski area, have played every devious trick in the book to obstruct our business and take over the property at the lowest possible point,” Leavitt said. Town officials mentioned in the lawsuit are First Selectman Jon Brayshaw and former Chairman of the Middlefield Board of Finance Paul Pizzo.

For more, see Former Powder Ridge owner files suit against town.