What happens with the West Elm hotel in Detroit isn't precisely known, but we do know that the second site where it was supposed to go is no longer in the cards.

The deal was scrapped by Detroit-based The Roxbury Group late this spring, David Di Rita, the company's principal, said Monday, confirming a detail in a lengthy Detroit Free Press story by JC Reindl on Friday.

He declined to provide specifics on why the business relationship didn't work out, although he did say that Roxbury started talks with other hotel flags for the project after West Elm was no longer in the picture.

But the hiccup in the Detroit project comes around the same time that a West Elm hotel in Indianapolis was canceled, as well. In June, Indianapolis Monthly reported that the West Elm hotel in that city was DOA.

A lawsuit by DDK Hotels, the former hotel operator that West Elm had tapped for a joint venture on the projects, has been filed in the matter, threatening delays to the ultimate rollout in the other pilot cities. It alleges breach of contract.

The lawsuit says that a new West Elm president, Alex Bellos, "blind-sided" DDK, "informing them that he wanted to move the West Elm Hotel brand in a materially different direction than was initially contemplated by the joint venture partners and wanted to develop a more scale-able, cookie-cutter model," the complaint says.

"In fact, however, what (West Elm parent company Williams-Sonoma Inc.), West Elm and Bellos had already decided upon was to eliminate DDK from the joint venture, to replace it, obtain a more favorable financial arrangement, and to accomplish that result by engaging in conduct that violated DDK's legal rights and the terms of the JV Agreement."

I sent an email Monday night to West Elm seeking additional details on whether the luxury furniture brand still plans a Detroit hotel. I have not yet heard back.

When it was announced in September 2016, it was to go on a roughly 1.5-acre site at Cass Avenue and Canfield Street in Midtown on land owned by Wayne State University.

It was revealed a year and a half ago that it had moved to the Roxbury site, which is at Woodward Avenue and Eliot Street as part of a planned 7-acre development known as SoMA, which is shorthand for South of Mack Avenue, planned by the Nyman family.

Some of the first West Elm hotels were to be in Detroit, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Oakland and Portland. There's no indication on the West Elm hotels website of Detroit's being scrapped; the city's location is still listed. But then again, so is Indianapolis.