05:10 AM EST Share The parties are seeking resolution as City Council prepares to vote on $32.9 million to purchase three parking garages.
The Downtown Investment Authority’s and the city’s legal fight with Metropolitan Parking Solutions over the company’s 2004 redevelopment agreement for three parking garages is headed to mediation in the 4th Judicial Circuit Court.
Attorneys for the three parties are scheduled for a Zoom videoconference at 9:30 a.m. May 5 to begin mediation in the case, according to records filed Feb. 18 with the Duval County Clerk of Courts.
MPS filed a lawsuit in September alleging the city and DIA were in breach of contract and in default when the city withheld portions of several development loan payments owed to the company for parking garages at the Duval County Courthouse and VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena owned and operated by MPS.