Case number: 2:24-bk-21743 - Wisconsin & Milwaukee Hotel LLC - Wisconsin Eastern Bankruptcy Court

Case Information
  • Case title

    Wisconsin & Milwaukee Hotel LLC

  • Court

    Wisconsin Eastern (wiebke)

  • Chapter

    11

  • Judge

    G. Michael Halfenger

  • Filed

    04/09/2024

  • Last Filing

    06/13/2025

  • Asset

    Yes

  • Vol

    v

Docket Header
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U.S. Bankruptcy Court
Eastern District of Wisconsin (Milwaukee)
Bankruptcy Petition #: 24-21743-gmh

Assigned to: G. Michael Halfenger
Chapter 11
Voluntary
Asset


Date filed:  04/09/2024
341 meeting:  05/08/2024
Deadline for filing claims:  06/21/2024
Deadline for objecting to discharge:  07/08/2024

Debtor In Possession

Wisconsin & Milwaukee Hotel LLC

731 North Jackson Street, Suite 420
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Tax ID / EIN: 45-2686995

represented by
Claire Ann Richman

Richman & Richman LLC
122 W. Washington Ave.
Suite 850
Madison, WI 53703
608-630-8990
Fax : 608-630-8991
Email: crichman@randr.law

Eliza M. Reyes

Richman & Richman LLC
122 W. Washington Ave.
Suite 850
Madison, WI 53703
608-630-8990
Fax : 608-630-8991
Email: ereyes@randr.law

Michael P Richman

Richman & Richman LLC
122 W. Washington Ave., Suite 850
Madison, WI 53703
608-709-5998
Fax : 608-630-8991
Email: mrichman@randr.law

U.S. Trustee

Office of the U. S. Trustee

517 East Wisconsin Ave.
Room 430
Milwaukee, WI 53202
414-297-4499
represented by
Dillon J. Ambrose

DOJ
517 East Wisconsin Avenue
Suite 430
Milwaukee, WI 53202
202-702-8738
Email: dillon.j.ambrose@usdoj.gov

Laura D. Steele

DOJ-Ust
517 E. Wisconsin Ave.
Ste 430
Milwaukee, WI 53202
202-603-5188
Email: Laura.Steele@usdoj.gov

Latest Dockets

Date Filed#Docket Text
06/11/2025593Court Minutes and Order from hearing held on June 10, 2025 (RE: 430 Objection to Claim, 432 Application for Administrative Expenses , 563 Motion to Reconsider (related documents 541 Order on Application for Administrative Expenses) / Debtor's Motion for Reconsideration of May 15, 2025 Order Granting in Part White Lodging Services Corporation's Motion for Allowance of Admi, 577 Motion for Relief from Stay as to Hotel.). (amg, Deputy Clerk) (Signed: 06/11/2025) (Entered: 06/11/2025)
06/10/2025592PDF with attached Audio File. Court Date & Time [ 6/10/2025 3:47:57 PM ]. File Size [ 27533 KB ]. Run Time [ 00:57:22 ]. (1. Computershare Trust Company, N.A. and Wisconsin & Milwaukee Hotel Funding LLC's motion for relief from the automatic stay and 2. Status hearing). (admin). (Entered: 06/10/2025)
06/10/2025591Declaration / Third Supplemental Declaration of Michael P. Richman Under Bankruptcy Rule 2014 filed by Michael P Richman on behalf of Wisconsin & Milwaukee Hotel LLC. (RE: 10 Application to Employ Richman & Richman LLC as Attorney for the Debtor / Notice and Application of Debtor for Authority to Retain and Employ Richman & Richman LLC as Counsel for the Debtor Effective as of April 10, 2024). (Richman, Michael) (Entered: 06/10/2025)
06/10/2025590Correspondence / May 2025 Fee Statement of Richman & Richman LLC as Counsel to Debtor filed by Eliza M. Reyes on behalf of Wisconsin & Milwaukee Hotel LLC. (RE: 147 Order on Motion Re: Chapter 11 Motions). (Reyes, Eliza) (Entered: 06/10/2025)
06/09/2025589Notice of Hearing (RE: 577 Computershare Trust Company, N.A. and Wisconsin & Milwaukee Hotel Funding LLC's motion for relief from the automatic stay). Hearing to be held on 6/10/2025 at 03:45 PM by Zoom videoconference. To appear, please use the links or the phone number provided in the notice, enter Meeting ID 161 2029 1132 and passcode 600430 before the scheduled hearing time. (srh, Deputy Clerk) Additional attachment(s) added on 6/9/2025 (srh, Deputy Clerk). (Entered: 06/09/2025)
06/06/2025588Witness List filed by Amy Daleo on behalf of White Lodging Management Corp.. (Daleo, Amy) (Entered: 06/06/2025)
06/06/2025587
Order:
On April 9, 2025, the court approved the debtor's disclosure statement, scheduled the chapter 11 confirmation hearing to begin on July 21, 2025, and set other related deadlines. ECF No. 495. On May 28, 2025, the debtor filed a letter stating that all parties who had objected to confirmation of the debtor's chapter 11 plan had agreed to modify certain confirmation-related deadlines set by the court's April 9 order, and the court entered an order approving those modified deadlines on May 29. ECF Nos. 559 & 562. After the debtor filed a motion to reconsider the approval of White Lodging Services Corporation's administrative expenses later in the day on May 29, the court held a Monday, June 2, 2025 status conference to consider the scheduling of further proceedings and the potential need to modify the schedule of the confirmation proceedings. At that hearing, the court was persuaded that the agreed upon schedule for confirmation should be left in place and also scheduled a June 27, 2025 evidentiary hearing and related proceedings to adjudicate the debtor's motion to reconsider. ECF No. 573.

On June 5 Computershare Trust Co. and Wisconsin & Milwaukee Hotel Funding LLC (the Lenders) filed a motion for relief from the section 362(a) stay pursuant to section 362(d)(2), though suggesting that the motion could be adjudicated concurrently with the debtor's request for plan confirmation. ECF No. 577. On June 6 the debtor filed correspondence requesting that the court significantly restructure the scheduled confirmation proceedings and proposed that the court hold a status hearing on "an urgent basis". ECF No. 583 at 1. Soon thereafter, the Lenders objected to the debtor's suggestion that the court should modify the schedule of proceedings. ECF No. 584.

Based on the debtor's request, the court will hold a status conference on June 10, 2025, at 3:45 p.m. by videoconference. The details for attending the hearing by videoconference will be docketed on Monday, June 9, 2025.

The parties should be prepared to discuss, among other things, the time limitations imposed by section 362(e), which provides, inter alia, that once a motion for relief under section 362(d) is filed, "unless the court, after notice and a hearing, orders [the] stay continued in effect pending the conclusion of, or as a result of, a final hearing and determination under" 11 U.S.C. sec. 362(d), the automatic stay "terminate[s] with respect to the party in interest making such request" "[t]hirty days after" the motion for relief is filed. Section 362(e)(1) permits the court, after holding a preliminary hearing, to enter an order that continues the automatic stay pending the conclusion of the final hearing, but only "if there is a reasonable likelihood that the party opposing relief from such stay will prevail at the conclusion of [the] final hearing." Section 362(e)(1) further provides that the final hearing on the motion must "be concluded not later than thirty days after the conclusion of such preliminary hearing, unless the 30-day period is extended with the consent of the parties in interest or for a specific time which the court finds is required by compelling circumstances."

To avoid any doubt, the debtor is not required to file a response to the Lenders' motion in advance of the June 10 hearing.

s/ G. Michael Halfenger
Chief Bankruptcy Judge

(RE: 577 Motion for Relief from Stay as to Hotel., 583 Correspondence, 584 Correspondence). (Halfenger, G.) (Entered: 06/06/2025)
06/06/2025586Witness List / Debtor's List of Witnesses filed by Michael P Richman on behalf of Wisconsin & Milwaukee Hotel LLC. (Richman, Michael) (Entered: 06/06/2025)
06/06/2025585Witness List for Plan Confirmation Hearings filed by Frank W. DiCastri on behalf of Computershare Trust Company, N.A. and Wisconsin & Milwaukee Hotel Funding LLC. (DiCastri, Frank) (Entered: 06/06/2025)
06/06/2025584Correspondence Regarding Confirmation Schedule filed by Frank W. DiCastri on behalf of Computershare Trust Company, N.A. and Wisconsin & Milwaukee Hotel Funding LLC. (RE: 583 Correspondence). (DiCastri, Frank) (Entered: 06/06/2025)