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1. Global warming claims all hot air, says speaker at OU2. OU student charged with raping 17-year-old3. Police chief: City can’t stop parties before they start4. For most, the journey to Nine Fest seemed worth it5. Is another oil and gas land-rush starting in Athens?6. Parties spun by OU alums have bootie-shakers raving7. High St. student renters take on big local landlord8. Tanning parlor fights to get back into uptown Athens storefront9. Oak and Mill fests mellow down easy10. City Council acts to ban ‘fracking’ in water supply area11. Landowners’ group renews leasing pitch12. Wal-Mart asks judge to grant store win in shoplifter’s lawsuit13. Electric blue skies, May warmth frame music fest14. OU and city officials urge better fest behavior15. Pills defeated relative when no other drugs could do it16. David Alan Jones17. Hall of Fame baseball coach calls it a day at OU18. Local developers hoping to revive struggling hotel19. Festering fests; down, down deep; and the Golden Rule20. Nine Festers enjoy the sun and music, without the mud
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Sunday, January 29,2012
Mall owner wants to evict restaurant
A Wisconsin company that owns a number of mall properties in Athens has filed a lawsuit to evict Gran Ranchero, a Mexican restaurant, from its home at 979 E. State St.
The suit, filed in Athens County Common Pleas Court last week by the Continental 113 Fund LLC, claims that the restaurant has failed to pay its monthly $5,000 rent for the last three months, and therefore has defaulted on its lease.
Contacted Sunday, the manager of the restaurant said he could not comment on the suit, and referred questions to the owner, Raul Morales of Parkersburg, W.Va. The Athens NEWS was unable to locate contact information for Morales.
The complaint says that Continental 113 Fund notified Gran Ranchero of its alleged lease default in a letter Nov. 14. Based on the alleged default, it says, the company has a legal right to throw the restaurant out of the site immediately.
The restaurant has been told to leave, the suit says, but so far has failed to do so.
In 2009, Continental 113 Fund sued a former mall business located near Gran Ranchero, claiming it had abandoned its building and owed back rent.
In that suit, the Fund claimed that Hollywood Video, once located at 959 E. State, had stopped paying on its lease, pulled its operations out of the building, and owed more than $19,000 in unpaid rent.
In that case, the business's parent company, Movie Gallery, Inc., had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a federal court in West Virginia.
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