On Fri, 17 May 2013 12:45:59 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

> On 5/17/2013 11:49 AM, sf wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 May 2013 11:13:55 -0400, jmcquown >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 5/16/2013 6:23 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
> >>> When we first moved here, there was a Mexican restaurant. It's no longer
> >>> there. Was two different Indian places after that and now an Italian place.
> >>> I just think that building is doomed.
> >>
> >> There's a building like that in nearby Port Royal. Seems like every
> >> year it's a different restaurant. I can't figure out why; it's on the
> >> main thoroughfare with lots of traffic. Surely not every single owner
> >> could have been completely incompetent? It would appear so.
> >>
> > Sometimes there's a problem with the building and there's a dispute
> > over who is responsible for fixing it.
> >
> I'm sure that's true. Yet every time I'm in that area there's a
> different restaurant name on the building. If there's some legal
> dispute about issues with the property wouldn't they have to disclose
> that to whomever is leasing the space? It's been a different type of
> restaurant each time. It's a Japanese restaurant (at the moment).
>
I honestly don't know what has to be disclosed when it comes to
renting a restaurant property. I know we had a fantastic restaurant
just a couple of blocks away from us that closed very suddenly after
being open for only a week or two. It turned out there was some sort
of a drainage problem in the kitchen area (I don't remember if city
inspectors were involved or not). It was a matter of who was
responsible. The landlord said the tenant was responsible and the
tenant said it was the landlord... that space had been empty for
years, and I'm unfamiliar with the previous history. In any case, the
tenant left due to the dispute. It remained empty for a few more
years and then there was a series of good, but not very long lasting
restaurants - which I will assume were due to the same issue. The
storefront has been empty for the better part of a year and I don't
expect anyone to move in any time soon. These buildings are usually
owned by someone off shore. I can speculate about why they don't cash
out or upgrade - even back when the market was hot, hot, hot - but
it's only conjecture.


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