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Costly obstruction: South End building owner hit with multimillion-dollar judgment for attempting to derail plans for rival condo project
When it comes to NIMBY opposition that derails plans for new housing, it’s not just the neighbors raising a stink.
Sometimes it’s rival developers worried about the competition that are to blame for purposely gumming up the works.
That’s apparently the case with Arthur Leon and JACE Boston, a major South End property owner who now finds himself staring at a $5.8 million court judgment.
Last week, a Suffolk County Superior Court jury found that Leon and JACE had abused Boston’s permitting approval process – and in one case the criminal justice system – in a bid to obstruct plans for a $20 million high-end condo building next door to one of their South End properties.
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