re: Bocage Village cancels Dearman's lease

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If there's more to the story, then the landlord needs to come out with it. But for now, it looks like a pretty big dick move.

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Why does a landlord need to publicly state 100% why he is terminating a lease for one of his properties?

It's stated in the lease he can terminate because of a fire. A fire happened.

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For now, my business will follow Dearman's to a new location. I've certainly had the last of Portabello's, Beausoleil, LeMadeline, Carriages, and whatever else is still renting in that shithole.

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Haha wow. This is a joke, right?

If not, nice emotional reaction like a child

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i would boycott the rest of the businesses there.

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Yeah, that's a reasonable response. Penalize those that had nothing to do with this. Good thinking...

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I dug the nostalgia, but nope.

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This. And the fries were terrible.

Dr. Hill has got a problem with the owner

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One of the best burgers in Baton Rouge.


Nope.

I dug the nostalgia, but nope.

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This

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But even before the fire, Dearman’s future at Bocage Village was questionable. Last fall, Richardson sent a letter to Van Gelder informing him the lease was set to expire in June. Van Gelder says he spent weeks making minor improvements to the restaurant, including new paint and wainscoting, and was under the impression the lease would be extended.

Richardson says he can’t say if the lease would have been extended had the fire not occurred, adding, “I don’t know, I didn’t get that far.” But he says, “This is something we have all been talking about since October.”

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This is the wild card of the situation. The fire may be beneficial to one, or even both as an alternative to the lease expiring. The tenant has an opportunity to find a new location while its business interruption insurance provides benefits and casualty insurance covers its furniture, fixtures and equipment. The landlord gets to look for a new tenant while mixing tenant specific improvements with the repairs paid for by insurance.

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Haha wow. This is a joke, right?

If not, nice emotional reaction like a child

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I don't think it's an emotional reaction. I think it's pretty calculated, and a completely reasonable way to direct my displeasure with the actions of a landlord so as to pressure them into changing their policy. You might have the right to terminate a lease for any reason, but it's kind of a service to the public to talk about why you're doing it. Therefore you keep all your other tenants happy and without fear their business won't be hurt with the hastiness of your actions.

Let me get this out for all the posters in this particular thread

Who's to say that Dearmans hasn't kept up their end of an agreement that wasn't necessarily lease breaking and this gave the landlord an out? Maybe his equipment needed upgrading or maintenance and that is what caused the fire.
I love how people's true colors come out when something like this happens:
"That rich big bad landlord just wants more money from another tenant blah blah blah." or "I don't know ANY facts AT ALL but no way could this be Dearmans fault."

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you'll show 'em. Punish the people who have nothing to do with the actions of the landlord. Way to go champ. Maybe if this catches on, we can shut down The Backpacker because the Midas on college closed.

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Remember when Hank Saurage just up and decided it was time to throw Highland Coffee's out of the building he just purchased for no reason? And it looked a little shady that the grandson of a local coffee magnate (whom also has a seat on the board of directors of said coffee magnate) could just do something because it made business sense, but took little to no stock in how it would publicly look? For me, Dearman's had a folksy vibe in a part of town filled with ridiculous boutique fair. There's nothing wrong with suggesting on a message board that the patron's voice can be heard by saying they won't be back in the shopping center. If those companies want to keep my business, they should urge the building owner to renew Dearman's lease. Otherwise look like they're engaging in business with an a-hole and they risk looking like they support the decision. If that's the way they want to go about it, then deal with the consequences.