MIAMI—After filing a $200 million lawsuit in January against the City of Aventura and gaining support from the local community earlier this month, the developers of Privé at Island Estates in Aventura have filed a second suit. This time, though, it's more personal.

Indeed, Privé Developers and BH3 Management have filed a #225 million lawsuit against specific residents in and near Williams Island. The complaint charges them with interfering with the developer's rights to build and trying to prevent the project from coming out of the ground.

“It's very clear that this small group of people has one objective and that is to kill our project,” says Daniel Lebensohn, a principal of BH3. “Our goal is to exercise our long-standing building rights, which have been in place since 1976, and deliver a first-class project to our purchasers and a lasting and enduring landscape which meaningfully and permanently contributes to the Aventura tax base to the benefit of all residents. And that is exactly what we will do.”