Blocking a public space

Hello,
I have a warehouse that I take goods in and out of with heavy carts. A few months ago, someone opened a store next to the warehouse, and there in a public urban area at the entrance is a kind of large, thin, decorated and painted wooden platform. My workers walked over the platform with the cart and it broke. I apologized and paid the platform owner 600 shekels as he demanded. My workers can move it another, less paved and longer route, or move the platform. Goods are brought in and out of the warehouse several times a day and this story costs me several hours of weekly work for which I pay. It doesn’t really make me happy. The store owner told me that he asked the municipality and they told him that from their point of view it is public space but underutilized and they don’t object to placing this platform and don’t demand a fee for it because people can walk through and it even beautifies the area. But the area is public. In short, I’m fed up. I demanded that the platform owner remove the annoying platform and he refuses. We are both observant people. Is this permissible for him according to Halacha? Am I allowed to run over the platform with the carts and have it break and not pay? He is taking over a public area and is effectively blocking my way. I don’t understand in what world that makes sense. Maybe I’ll plant flowers for him all around the store and he won’t be able to set foot there?? I contacted the municipality and in the end it turned out that they don’t care. Yes, platform not platform, they don’t care and they are not going to intervene. Is there anything I can do besides get angry?
Thank you very much.