For the second time in a week, a  club owner in Hawkins Plaza served Cielo Vista neighbors with a lawsuit for allegedly interferring with business.

The lawsuit, filed by James Michael Armstrong on behalf of his business the Three Legged Monkey, is aimed at three of the same people named in the lawsuit served earlier this week to El Paso City by Miami Social Club owner David Cooper.

Irene and Robert Borunda, John Billingslea, and Anna Nazario all near to Hawkins Plaza in east El Paso and are affiliated with the Cielo Vista Neighborhood Association. The lawsuit accuses the four of engaging in coordinated and obsessive efforts to shut down the Three Legged Monkey, as well as preventing Armstrong's ability to conduct business in El Paso through defamation.

Nazario said she and the others named in the lawsuit cannot comment on the pending court battle.

Armstrong, who filed the lawsuit on Jan. 3 said he's tried for four years to negotiate with the neighbors before using a court settlement, but never reached an agreement.

Now tenants who also have businesses at Hawkins Plaza are speaking out.

"If these people that live half a mile away can hear what's going on in this shopping center, that's news to me," said George Galindo, owner of tatoo parlor The House of Pain. "Because I'm right next door and I can't hear anything."

Galindo said his business hasn't been effected by the negative attention to the plaza over the last year, but he attributes part of that to the kind of business he does.

"It's a little bit different in the tattooing business because it's a specialty shop," Galindo said. "People come out and look for you, we don't rely a lot on foot traffic."

But for Julia's Italian Deli, foot traffic is what owner Cindy Cuellar needs. Cuellar said she's had to change her menu from pure Italian cuisine to include Mexican cuisine in order to attract a wider range of customers.

"When I first signed my lease, I was doing really good business," Cuellar said. "But after the shooting last February and the negative press that followed, I've had business really drop off."

Galindo said the true victims in the lawsuits are tax payers.

"The city needs to apologize and let these young business owners continue to employ people and cycle that revenue through the system," said Galindo. "It's a lot of tax payer money being used for the wrong reasons. That shooting in the parking lot could have happened anywhere. This is a very safe neighborhood. I don't even think that's been the issue from day one."