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<\/p>\nThe Spanish developer leading one of Miami\u2019s largest planned housing projects has responded to allegations\u00a0from\u00a0a former partner who claims she was never paid for three\u00a0years of work and exiled from the\u00a0development.<\/p>\n
He claims she was never a partner at all.<\/p>\n
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\n Bisnow\/Chloe Gallivan\n <\/p>\n
\n Pablo Castro at Bisnow’s South Florida Construction and Development Summit in November 2025\n <\/p>\n
In an April 30 filing\u00a0in\u00a0Miami-Dade Circuit Court,\u00a0Pablo Castro<\/a>\u00a0responded to\u00a0Laura Tauber<\/a>‘s March lawsuit<\/a>, which revolved around her\u00a0claims\u00a0that she was promised equity and compensation for her part in gaining approvals and landing agreements with\u00a0labor unions for the HueHub project.<\/p>\n Instead, Castro claims Tauber sought to participate in the project to learn about workforce housing development and was allowed to participate in meetings around the development.\u00a0<\/p>\n Even though Tauber was called a partner in marketing materials and during public meetings discussing the development, Castro claimed she was only represented as a \u201cpartner\u201d under the interpretation that she would raise and invest equity and share project costs, which he claims she never did.<\/p>\n \u201c[Tauber] knowingly accepted the opportunity to participate without compensation with the expectation that any future benefit would arise from her anticipated equity participation through investment or the introduction of investors (which never materialized) thereby waiving any right to later seek recovery,\u201d according to the response, filed by\u00a0Bilzin Sumberg<\/a> attorneys Mitchell Widom and Raquel Fernandez.<\/p>\n Widom and Fernandez are Castro’s third group of defense attorneys\u00a0since the original case was filed two months ago. They didn’t respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n Representatives for The HueHub<\/a> declined to comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cMs. Tauber prefers not to litigate her case in the press as the facts discovered in the litigation will speak for themselves,\u201d Kluger Kaplan attorney Steve Silverman, who is representing Tauber,\u00a0said in a statement. \u201cThere will be no support for the contention made by HueHub\u2019s and Mr. Castro\u2019s lawyers that Ms. Tauber was to obtain investors, invest in the project, or share in expenses.\u201d<\/p>\n Castro\u00a0also\u00a0cast doubt about the true scope of the project. The developer secured approval for\u00a0the\u00a0$880M Phase 1 of the project<\/a>, with\u00a04,032 units\u00a0planned across six 35-story towers at 83954 NW 27th Ave. in the West Little River neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n In Tauber’s complaint, she characterized it as a $1.3B, 6,000-unit development at full build-out. Castro’s response denied that characterization.\u00a0<\/p>\n The HueHub is the largest Miami-Dade County project to utilize the Live Local Act<\/a>, which allows developments to surpass local height and density restrictions as long as at least 40% of the project is dedicated to those making between 80% and 120% of the area median income.<\/p>\n The project gained its final county approval in August for the first phase and held a demolition ceremony on March 4.<\/p>\n But the momentum didn\u2019t last long. Tauber sued Castro<\/a>\u00a0a week later\u00a0for breach of contract and fraud, later amending her complaint to include defamation.\u00a0<\/p>\n