Retail Tenants, Landlords Clash Over Proposed Pandemic Rent Clauses

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Some retail tenants are aiming to rewrite their leases to include pandemic escape clauses and other additional forms of relief, setting up a showdown with landlords who oppose these measures

Most retail leases limit a tenant’s ability to claim a rent abatement based on business interruption or force majeure clauses, which either exclude pandemics or don’t relieve a tenant from paying rent.

Tenant lawyers say they are insisting these clauses become a part of new leases.

 

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It’s called force majeure, they may already have it.

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