Left: Grant Stern, Miami resident and founder of www.nowalmartinmidtown.com - Right: Walmart's construction site on 3055 N. Miami Avenue yesterday.

Walmart's foundation permit in Midtown Miami has been revoked, but the giant retailer continues construction work illegally anyhow as The Real Deal South Florida is reporting.

After seeing the evidence of illegal construction, City of Miami Code Compliance Director Eli Gutierrez had this message to his code enforcement team after seeing the videos that you can see below:

Please see building violation and immediate action needed. Are you guys handling this issue? Constituent included video of work going on after revocation of permit.

I founded NoWalmartinMidtown.com to oppose Walmart because of their attempt to build an illegal plan, which we discovered through public records requests in 2012. And I recorded that video on Facebook Live yesterday showing the non-compliance too.

Since then, the Betonville based company lost their attempt to re-design the district to fit their plan, lost approval from a board of architects, won two political decisions, lost in Circuit court. But that only brings you up to the end of 2014.

After neighbors won what should've been a decisive blow in Miami-Dade County's 11th district court, the city of Miami has bent over backwards to hand out favors to Walmart.

Former Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff quickly handed them a new permit in late 2014, one barely one month after Walmart lost to the neighbors in court. It was a decision which residents strongly opposed, having only gotten a copy of the new Walmart plans debated while inside City Hall for the hearing. A city official had inserted the plans into the meeting agenda clandestinely, just three days before the hearing.

Since then, residents opposing the permit have fought at a doubly severe disadvantage, ultimately losing in state court this past January, weeks after the city issued a foundation permit to Walmart.

But it's all come screeching to a halt for Walmart this week, as their permit has been revoked.

Walmart has been stuck for months now, lacking ownership of the two adjacent properties their plan requires to build on the site.

City of Miami rules actually forbid the kind of foundation permit Walmart obtained, since multiple folios make properties ineligible for phased construction.

A letter from Miami's City Attorney Victoria Mendez in February confirmed that fact.

Walmart's spokespeople called foundation work "completed" in public comment to the Real Deal.

But none of that is stopping the discount retailer from having a dozen men work on the site today.

As you can see in the video below from yesterday morning, over a dozen men are working on foundation elements right now.

It remains to be seen what action the city of Miami will now take against Walmart for breaking the law in their hurry to build a fiercely contested store in Midtown Miami.

Grant Stern the author is founder of NoWalmartinMidtown.com and has spoken out against the Midtown Miami Walmart project proposed at 3055 N. Miami Avenue for over 4 years now.