Michigan park developer has history of failure

Posted August 24, 2007, 9:54A | Contributed by Jeff

Patrick Crosson has big ideas for a sprawling, multi-million dollar amusement park near Grayling, but his checkered financial past is raising red flags among local and state officials. In the mid-1990s, Crosson was a top officer in an amusement park project near Indianapolis that flopped and eventually fell into bankruptcy, according to court documents and newspaper reports. Crosson, of Livonia, also emerged from personal bankruptcy early last year, about the same time he started meeting with state and local officials to discuss the Grayling Township proposal.