'I put my whole life into this file for years, and bankrupted my firm pushing it forward,' said Joan Jack.

After three years and $14 million, the Capital Pointe hole is finally set to begin construction.

In his final remarks to the appeal board, counsel for the developers of Capital Pointe didn’t mince words on why the appeal board shouldn’t fill the hole.

The City argued the board doesn’t have the power to hear the issue, a result of delays in the process that forced the appeal to take longer than 30 days.