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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The ineligible conflict betwixt the City of Fresno and the Central Valley Community Sports Foundation (CVCSF) has escalated arsenic the metropolis pursues an unlawful detainer suit to region the instauration from the property.
The nonprofit enactment that operates Granite Park, CVCSF has managed the parkland since 2015. CVCSF alleges that the metropolis is improperly trying to evict them and divert events to city-run facilities.
The suit follows an ongoing national lawsuit successful litigation for the past 4 years.
In November of 2024, the City of Fresno said it would beryllium taking backmost power of Granite Park aft CVCSF failed to wage the much than $1.3 cardinal it owed the city. The City besides had antecedently threatened to terminate their lease successful 2022, after it was recovered the park didn’t person the close liability insurance.
In a statement, CVCSF President Terrance Frazier described the suit arsenic an effort to instrumentality implicit the park.
"The city’s latest actions are a wide effort to heist the nonprofit’s $3 cardinal concern successful Granite Park," Frazier said. "Which has boosted the park’s existent worth to astir $8 million.”
The quality implicit Granite Park’s absorption has been ongoing, with multiple ineligible actions filed successful caller years.
The unlawful detainer lawsuit is acceptable to beryllium heard successful Fresno Superior Court connected Tuesday, March 4, astatine 8:30 a.m.
Yourcentralvalley.com reached retired to officials with the City of Fresno but person not heard back.
