Moline is set to cut any ties to developer Todd Raufeisen over the next four years.
During the City Council meeting Tuesday, February 23, 2016, aldermen will decide on banning him from doing business with the city.
That resolution comes after plans for a $90-million Case Creek Trails project fell apart in 2012.
Raufeisen, who says he's been calling the city recently on behalf of national clients, is surprised by the move.
"They simply could have said, 'Listen, you can't call us right now,'" he said. "I wouldn't have called them."
Moline officials weren't speaking about the resolution on Monday.
In a written statement, the city expresses dissatisfaction with the outcome of Raufeisen's Case Creek project.
The resolution reads that Moline issued bonds and spent money on the plans but, the city says, Raufeisen failed to meet his obligations.
The developer remains involved in a lawsuit connected to the project. He's due back in court in mid-March.
"I have no active projects in Moline," he said. "I have no ambitions of active projects in Moline until the lawsuit is resolved."
For now, the Moline land remains a barren reminder of what might have been.
"It is what it is," Raufeisen concluded. "It's going to play itself out in court, and then we'll see who is right."
In any case, Moline is poising to move on without Raufeisen.
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Editor's note: Raufeisen had planned a three-story, $11.2 million dollar project that would include restaurant, retail, and office space at The Dock in Davenport. After financial delays and a missed deadline on the demolition of the building, the redevelopment project was terminated in July 2015.
Raufeisen was also the developer at the center of the embattled Fyre Lake Golf Club in Sherrard, which was the subject of a $375,000 loan that the city said went unpaid for an extended period of time before a settlement was reached. That facility is under new ownership as of June 2015.