MIAMI Beach front – The entrepreneurs of Nikki Seaside filed for an emergency injunction to stop the Town of Miami Seaside from getting any motion about the landmark house.
The homeowners of Nikki Seaside previously filed a lawsuit against the metropolis and Boucher Brothers Miami Beach, LLC that accused the defendants of pursuing an “unfair, backdoor deal.”
Jack and Lucia Penrod opened Penrods in the area in 1985.
The pair won a bid to lease and agreed on a concessions deal with the City of Miami Seaside.
The Penrods invested much more than $4 million in the residence, in accordance to their lawsuit.
The lease, which has been renewed at the very least two times, expires in three years.
Citing newspaper quotations and community meetings, the lawsuit submitted Friday claimed Miami Beach metropolis commissioners did not invite fair negotiations with the Penrods and others.
As an alternative, the town prepared to give command around the house to Boucher Brothers, a firm that controls seaside rentals on the island, according to the lawsuit.
“The present-day city procedure is likely to the Boucher Brothers who have been vendors for 30 some yrs who we believe that we will be capable to establish send money to all of the commissioners with their pet tasks,” Phillip Hudson, guide legal professional for Penrod Brothers, LLC.
“We feel specifically with the three commissioners that we identify precisely that will not be working in November or are unable to run simply because they are termed out that this is in essence payback for all of that help in excess of the many years.”
Boucher Brothers did not return phone calls and messages in search of remark.
Metropolis of Miami Seashore Lawyer Rafael Paz responded.
“(The Penrods) surface to forget this is metropolis-owned residence here and they have no suitable underneath their agreements to any further renewals,” Paz claimed in an emailed statement.
“Certainly this complain has no merit.”
Miami Beach front Mayor Dan Gelber produced a reaction as well.
“I have no strategy of anybody treating Nikki Seaside unfairly,” Gelber explained in an emailed assertion.
“The proprietors have enjoyed a down below sector hire for decades. Ironically, the initially time I satisfied them was just lately when they requested for a non-public assembly to ask for a no-bid extension of their lease.”
In their injunction submitted Monday, Hudson and his staff asked a judge to rule in their favor without a listening to just before Wednesday’s commission assembly.
