MIAMI -- Millionaire businessman Norman Braman pushed to stop a massive downtown Miami construction plan on Thursday.

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The plan includes a new Marlins stadium.

Braman said the city rushed through the plan behind the backs of voters, and he said he'll spend whatever it takes to stop it.

Braman made his fortune selling cars since 1975 at a Biscayne Boulevard location.

Now, he's personally bankrolling an effort to shoot down the $3 billion plan to make over Miami.

"The increased property taxes you pay to redevelop blighted areas in Miami and Overtown are about to be squandered by Miami-Dade politicians," Braman said in a radio advertisement.

Braman's effort includes ads heard on the radio. He also filed a lawsuit to stop the county and city from using Community Redevelopment Agency money on building a truck tunnel from the port of Miami to Watson Island, turning Bicentennial Park into a museum park and building a new stadium for the Florida Marlins on the Orange Bowl site.

"These property taxes were intended for the poor," said the ad. "The Marlins are not poor."

"And if they want to do that, let them appropriate it properly," Braman said. "That should not come from the backs of people who have been waiting for years for help in this particular area."

Braman's office is decorated with Abraham Lincoln artifacts, and the history buff said the history of local projects does not fill him with confidence.

"Can you name me one project that's ever worked out the way our so-called leaders told us it would work out?" Braman asked.

One of the aspects of the plan that most upsets Braman is that in order to rebuild Bicentennial Park and to complete the port tunnel to Watson Island, the CRA boundaries have to be stretched to include them.

"To call Watson Island blighted is nonsense," Braman said. "If they want to do that, let them go to the voters for approval, if they want to use tax dollars. That's what I'm saying."

County officials wouldn't comment on Braman's lawsuit.