ORLANDO, Fla. – A planned $560 million expansion of the Orange County Convention Center, scheduled to begin this month, faces a legal challenge from a developer who claims the county failed to meet a decades-old requirement intended to prevent precisely the kind of traffic congestion residents now decry.

Universal City Property Management alleges Orange County violated a 1998 land‑use agreement that accompanied the sale of property to the county. The complaint alleges the county negotiated land‑use restrictions at the time of sale that included a requirement to construct an interchange linking Kirkman Road to State Road 528 before the convention center could be expanded beyond Phase V.

According to the developer’s complaint, that infrastructure was a condition meant to mitigate traffic

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