Two powerful Mexican developers are in a legal face-off over a large vacant parcel west of Miami’s Brickell Avenue, where one of them planned to build a pair of condo towers during the real estate boom.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge A. Jay Cristol is being asked to decide (read motion) whether an affiliate of Aventura-based Cabi Developers, Cabi SMA Tower I, should keep control of the 2.27-acre site or whether the property should be auctioned off to help pay a defaulted loan worth about $30 million.