Beckenheimer's Inc. v. Alameda Associates Ltd. Partnership

RODOWSKY, Judge.

This case involves efforts by a subtenant to renew a sublease of food supermarket premises in a shopping center. The principal question is whether certain departures by the subtenant from strict compliance with the renewal provisions nevertheless leave the renewal efforts within tolerances that permit equity to enforce the sublessor’s covenant to renew.

The shopping center involved is in the northwest quadrant of the Alameda and Chinquapin Parkway in northeast Baltimore City. The center was developed in the mid-1950s as “Alameda Shopping Center,” but was later renamed…