Pensacola is suing Joe Patti’s Seaford over access to its property to complete a $7.8 million stormwater project that is supposed to improve flooding for 1,688 properties in the city.
Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves took the unusual step of announcing the lawsuit had been filed in his weekly press conference on Oct. 28 because he wanted to make clear he wasn’t adverse to the lawsuit and the city was filing the suit as a last resort.
“Everybody knows how important Joe Patti’s is to our community,” Reeves said. “And certainly I can speak for this administration, and the previous administration, by saying I think that’s why we’ve spent three years (in talks) is for that exact reason. We spent three years trying to find some other solution. We are willing to pull this back if we can find that solution.”…