After years of legal battles that pitted several high profile Minnesotans against each other, the ruling is finally in: The Lake Minnetonka mansion with what neighbors call the “Garage Mahal” gets to stay. In 2021, former Vikings star linebacker Chad Greenway and his wife, Jenni, joined with former UnitedHealth Group executive Ken Ehlert and his wife, Wendy, to sue their neighbors and the city of Wayzata over environmental concerns and zoning regulations about a newly constructed home on Wayzata Bay. The house, they argued, was too close to the lakeshore.
Those neighbors, whose new home sat between the Greenways and Ehlerts, are Tom and Cindy Redmond — Tom is an entrepreneur and heir to the Aussie shampoo fortune; Cindy runs Redmond Real Estate, which specializes in luxury home sales in the west metro. Hennepin County Judge Edward T. Wahl ruled late last month that the Redmonds had followed all environmental rules and acquired all necessary permits in building their 8,300-square-foot home and 1,600-square-foot detached garage, which currently has a market value of $11.
3 million, according to county property assessment records. All claims by the Greenways and Ehlerts were denied and dismissed with prejudice. “These neighbors had been watching the home be built over two and a half years,” said William Skolnick, the attorney representing the Redmond’s LLC in the case.
“It’s not like we woke up and this was there ...
and my clients were very diligent of notifying .