Connecticut Properties Tri-Town Plaza, LLC v. Seymour Cinema, Inc.

Opinion

PETERS, J.

This appeal arises out of a contractual dispute between the owner of a shopping center and one of its tenants about costs associated with the construction of a retaining wall to the rear of the tenant’s movie theater. The owner maintains that the tenant bore this obligation because of two provisions in the lease, one requiring the tenant to comply with local land use regulations and another requiring the tenant to pay all costs of construction associated with the movie theater. The tenant maintains that the lease required the owner to assume the costs of the retaining wall…