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A Dorchester independent school is headed to court in an attempt to block Trinity Financial’s 150 Centre St. housing development, which was approved in November after a contentious neighborhood battle.

The project would redevelop the commercial property with a 4-story, 72-unit income-restricted housing project spanning 68,400 square feet.

Represented by law firm Sheehan Phinney, the Epiphany School  claims that the housing development will impede its plans to expand and harm the neighborhood. The lawsuit, filed in Suffolk Superior Court, claims that the Boston Planning & Development Agency improperly approved blighted status for the property under Massachusetts’ Chapter 121A, which grants private developers tax incentives.

The Epiphany School, which is an abutter, claims the project will cause significant adverse impacts, while harming its ability to expand by developing a parking lot directly east of the project.

“To deem a neighborhood with million-dollar Victorian homes, a modern independent school and a well-tended local business as blighted is faulty on its very face,” attorney Damon Seligson of Sheehan Phinney said in a statement.

The lawsuit names the BPDA and Trinity Shawmut LLC as defendants

The suit asks the court to overturn the BPDA’s Nov. 16 vote to approve the project, which had attracted significant neighborhood opposition. The project would replace an auto body shop next to the MBTA’s Shawmut station.

Trinity and a nonprofit development partner are also facing a lawsuit from the owners of Roxbury grocery store Tropical Foods who say a housing tower that’s planned in an upcoming phase of a Nubian Square development violates a decade-old agreement and will harm its business.