Four contractors won bids totaling $91,000 to fix Fort Myers’ historic Rachel at the Well statue. A competing firm struck back with a lawsuit after its bid failed.
The city picked its winners on May 5, weeks after Neubert Construction Services sued in March. Their legal action tried to block the city’s split-contract approach to fixing the 1926 monument, which Hurricane Ian left in pieces.
“The city is attempting to obviate the purpose of the lawsuit and award the work to other contractors in a piecemeal fashion to make this case moot,” stated Neubert’s emergency injunction request to News-Press…