After weeks of negotiations aimed at working out differences over the creation of an Inland Port Authority and who would control the city’s largely undeveloped northwest quadrant, the governor’s office thought they had come up with a compromise.
Instead, Biskupski told Herbert the deal was off. Not only that, the city would go to court to keep the port authority from taking away the city’s power, according to multiple sources who were told of the conversation.
Biskupski’s deputy chief of staff, David Litvack, said he was not privy to the mayor’s call, but he had not heard about any threat of a lawsuit and the goal remains to hammer out an agreement that is fair to all parties.