Half of a motel in Miami’s MiMo Historic District was illegally torn down for redevelopment, despite an agreement and covenant that mandated the building remains intact, nearby residents claimed in a lawsuit against the city and the building owner.

The light beige, two-story shuttered Bayside Motor Inn comprised two adjacent motels built in the 1940s and 1950s on the southeast corner of Biscayne Boulevard and Northeast 52nd Street. In the 1980s a lobby was built connecting them, completing a collection of other low-rise motels along Miami’s busy Biscayne.