The owner of a Farmington Hills strip mall complied with a court order and is no longer using its parking lot to store more than 200 Tesla vehicles.

Royal Oak-based Symmetry Property Management owns the Hunter’s Square shopping center on Orchard Lake Road near 14 Mile Road, according to a report in Crain’s Detroit Business.

Judge Marla Parker of the 47th District Court in Farmington Hills ruled June 4 that Symmetry must remove the vehicles by June 25 because the storage in the parking lot violated city code, according to Crain’s.

The shopping center is the former home of Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum, which is moving to Orchard Mall at Orchard Lake and Maple road in West Bloomfield Township. A late summer opening is planned.

The vehicles were moved out of the lot as of Thursday, June 19, the report said.

The report did not say who owns the vehicles or where they were taken. A city spokeswoman referred The Oakland Press to Symmetry, which did not return phone calls on Thursday, June 24.

The city’s issues with the vehicle storage have been ongoing for several months, according to Crain’s.

Dennis Randt, the city’s zoning division supervisor, notified Symmetry as early as March 13 that the Tesla storage was not allowed on the property, according to emails Crain’s obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

A complaint was documented on March 11 indicating about 20 vehicles appeared in the lot suddenly.

In the documents, a Symmetry property manager alleged the storage had been approved by two previous code enforcement officers. The city found no evidence of that.

More vehicles continued to arrive at Hunter’s Square, even though city officials told Symmetry the storage was in violation of city code.

The city initially gave Symmetry 10 days to move the vehicles or citations would be issued. Symmetry said that was not enough time and requested 30 days or more to move them.

The vehicles were stored on a portion of the parking lot near a closed Bed Bath & Beyond store and a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant that is still in operation.

In February, Tesla opened a new vehicle showroom and service center in a former Barnes & Noble bookstore in West Bloomfield.

A large portion of Hunter’s Square will be demolished to make way for a redeveloped shopping center that will include a scaled-down Meijer store and other tenants.

The owner of Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum, an arcade and memorabilia collection, was unable to reach an agreement with the property’s management to remain at Hunter’s Square. The popular arcade is moving to a space that is more than twice the size of its previous home.