Emagine Palladium Restaurant Scores Approval

BIRMINGHAM, MI — Emagine CEO Paul Glantz asked the city of Birmingham to forgive him for changing the restaurant concept within the Emagine Palladium without prior approval. His act of contrition paid dividends as the Birmingham city commission gave Emagine unanimous approval for its Special Land Use Permit — allowing the updated restaurant to remain open.

“I want to profusely apologize to this commission … we certainly did not communicate very effectively in terms of what we intended to do,” Glantz said to the commission. “The sad reality is, the restaurant we started with as part of our premises failed. And once it failed, I asked my partner Jon (Goldstein) to give it a shot since my initial process had failed.”

“We were unaware that changing the name of restaurant required approval,” Glantz said at the meeting. “We have paid professionals to advise us on such things and they were simply unaware.”

For more, go to the Birmingham Eccentric.

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