The development firm picked 10 years ago to renovate a sprawling, crumbling complex of state government offices near Bolton Hill is suing the State of Maryland over its a to void their agreement.

Last month, the Maryland Spending Board, comprising Gov. Larry Hogan, Comptroller Peter Franchot and Treasurer Nancy Kopp, voted to end the leases awarded by Martin O’Malley’s administration to State Center LLC back in 2009 so that Hogan’s administration could find a new developer for the property.

Michael Edney, an attorney who represents State Center LLC, said at the time that Hogan was “turning his back on the City of Baltimore.“ Hogan argued the project in its current form would generate too much debt for the state and said it was “totally unworkable.”

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