Herman Miller, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Thom Rock Realty Company, L.P., Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

This is a suit over the meaning of a lease provision. Neither the landlord, Thom Rock Realty Company, L.P., nor the tenant, Herman Miller, Inc., disputes that the expectations of the parties at the time the lease was entered into have been frustrated. What was to have been a world class showroom building exclusively devoted to the contract furniture trade has now become an ordinary commercial structure. Concomitantly with the dashing of the parties’ bright prospects came the instant litigation in which the tenant seeks damages and asks to be relieved from its lease.…