Grandview Heights Neighborhood Association v. Palm Beach County (Sunshine Law Challenge to $26M Convention Center Hotel Deal)

Two West Palm Beach neighborhood groups sued Palm Beach County, the City of West Palm Beach, its Community Redevelopment Agency, the CityPlace Community Development District, and Related Ross affiliates on October 14, 2026, seeking to void the county commission's September 29 approval of a $26 million sale-leaseback financing package for a planned 400-room convention center hotel. The suit alleges commissioners violated Florida's Government in the Sunshine Law by voting on a 715-page, 34-part transaction document that was not made public until roughly 90 minutes before the vote.

Why it matters

The case tests how far Florida's open-meetings law reaches when a local government's own notice practices technically meet the statutory minimum but leave the public little real opportunity to review a complex financing package before a vote. A ruling that the approval is void ab initio would put the county's $26 million construction-deposit advance, the planned sale-leaseback, and the developer's construction timeline back into legal limbo, and would give public-private hotel and convention-center financing deals elsewhere a cautionary data point on how much lead time 'reasonable notice' requires.

Case timeline · 2 entries Latest: October 14, 2026 — Grandview Heights Neighborhood Association and West Palm Beach Neighborhood Alliance sue to void the approval under Florida's Sunshine Law

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