The HueHub<\/a> also will have 200,000 square feet of amenities, including retail, dining, and features aimed at creating a community such as gardens, a library, learning center and show kitchen. Castro previously told<\/a> The Real Deal the development aims to provide a comfortable lifestyle and feel less like below-market rate housing. Construction is expected to start next month, with the financing in the \u201cclosing process,\u201d Castro said in a statement last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n But this year, the project has been marred with litigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the latest filing, the Miami Gardens Chamber of Commerce claims it entered into a joint venture agreement in January with an entity called Nevicott Limited for the chamber to serve as lead broker and lease acquisition agent for government worker leases, according to the complaint. The JV agreement also established the chamber\u2019s role in \u201cdeliverables including HUD and Congressional support, patent-filing coordination, federal appropriations advocacy, municipal stakeholder support, and national media campaign coordination,\u201d the suit says.\u00a0<\/p>\n Although the agreement had a confidentiality provision, including for financial data and deal terms, the defendants used the chamber\u2019s strategy and planning for Digital Housing\u2019s benefit but cut out the chamber \u201cfrom ownership and economic participation,\u201d the complaint alleges.\u00a0<\/p>\n The suit also lists Adam Duncan, Leonidas Oxby and Stephen H. Schneider as defendants.\u00a0<\/p>\n Duncan is of Newmark, and Oxby is of Miami-based Brickell Capital Finance, their LinkedIn accounts show.\u00a0<\/p>\n Duncan declined to comment. Oxby didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n Reached by phone, Schneider also said he\u2019s never met with anyone from the chamber.\u00a0<\/p>\n Castro also said he has no knowledge of Nevicott.\u00a0<\/p>\n The suit describes a Jan. 30 meeting at Red Rooster Restaurant in Miami when Duncan and Oxby agreed to assist with an introduction between Williams and Castro. But On Feb. 7, Duncan wrote in a group text message something to the effect of \u201cwe never discussed such a meeting,\u201d according to the complaint.\u00a0<\/p>\n The suit doesn\u2019t include exhibits such as the JV agreement or photos of the group text.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sahr Dumbar, an attorney at The Dumbar Law Center in Brickell who filed the suit, and Andr\u00e9 L. Williams, an attorney who also is the president of the chamber, didn\u2019t return requests for comment, including on Castro\u2019s pushback that he\u2019s had no dealings with the chamber.\u00a0<\/p>\n The complaint hasn\u2019t yet been served on the defendants, with the judge on Monday ordering the chamber to do so.\u00a0<\/p>\n The chamber of commerce also steered clear from going into details about the trade secrets it alleges were misappropriated, saying they\u2019re not general concepts but non-public methods, relationship strategies and other proprietary methods for use for affordable and workforce housing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Last month, D\u2019Lola Design & Construction, a company led by Silvia Garcia Llorca, sued Castro and his affiliates The HueHub and Digital Housing Platform, alleging it was stiffed from $113,600<\/a> for architectural work for the project. Castro said D\u2019Lola\u2019s claims are false.\u00a0<\/p>\n The first person to allege Castro sidelined her from HueHub was Laura Tauber<\/a>, a longtime South Florida developer and investor. After working on the project for nearly three years without pay under a verbal agreement with Castro, contributing her local know-how and leading efforts such as community engagements and negotiating a master lease, Castro froze her out of HueHub and records tied to the project, she alleged. She was supposed to receive equity in HueHub as a non-cash investment partner, 50 percent of property management income shared with Castro, 1 percent asset management fee, 10 percent of the developer fee and $50,000 monthly for her work in the past three years, according to Tauber\u2019s complaint.<\/p>\n Castro has responded with motions to dismiss counts in her complaint and with a filing claiming that Tauber never was a project partner<\/a> but voluntarily wanted to participate to learn about workforce housing development. She was allowed in project meetings and was referred to as a \u201cpartner,\u201d but the understanding was that she would bring in equity, invest herself or contribute toward HueHub\u2019s cost \u2013\u2013 all things she failed to do, Castro alleged.\u00a0<\/p>\n Most recently, Tauber\u2019s attorneys filed a motion for sanctions against Castro, alleging that after he forced Tauber out of the office in February and locked her out of her email account, he had an assistant throw away records such as handwritten notes regarding their agreement and printed emails with handwritten annotations that Tauber left on her office desk, according to the filing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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