Update: Court records detail financial struggles for restaurant owners.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Award-winning BBQ eatery Sandmann's has been closed and its assets seized by Kent County's 17th Circuit Court, according to a court order affixed to the business' door.

The notice, dated Monday, indicates the restaurant at 1200 Wealthy St. SE was shuttered by the court. Sandmann's has been a mainstay in the neighborhood since 2000, when co-owners Randall Sandifer and Ursula Mann-Sandifer set up shop.

The small eatery, nominated by MLive.com readers as being among the state's best spots for BBQ, sits at the busy corner of Wealthy and Fuller Avenue.

Sandifer and Mann-Sandifer opened the business in March 2000 after years of selling their BBQ fare to factory employees and at state fairs using Ursula's secret recipe.

Sandmann's, a portmanteau of the co-owners' last names, received the Milo Brown Business Award under the 2011 Giant Awards for contributions to the community.

The restaurant has been credited with helping revitalize the Wealthy Street corridor. The formerly dilapidated gas station the eatery occupies at Wealthy and Fuller Avenue underwent a major renovation in 2004.

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