While Save Coral Bay worked throughout 2015 compiling data for the Army Corps of Engineers, circulating petitions, engaging with the public, and presenting what the Army Corps stated was “unprecedented opposition” to the Summers End project, all was quiet on the CZM front.

With BLUA appeals pending, and with a new Governor who did not believe the project was the right scale for Coral Bay, there was nothing to do on the CZM front other than to wait for the BLUA hearing, which finally took place in April 2016.

However, behind the scenes, other problems were brewing for the Summers End Group.  Their limited power of attorney for the Voyages Building had expired and Merchants Bank was anxious to sell the two parcels.  And the lease agreements with local familes – the “Marsh Sisters Trust” – were not living up to promises and expectations.  Eventually those failed promises, and the efforts made by Summers End to secure an “unlimited waiver” of lease payments until construction began, would ultimately end up as the central matter in a major lawsuit.

Shortly following the BLUA hearing the two central parcels of the SEG marina project were sold, and things began to unravel further.  All of this is recounted in greater detail in the pages which follow.