Reston Recreation Center Associates v. Reston Property Investors Ltd. Partnership

This dispute over a landlord’s termination of a commercial lease before its scheduled expiration presents a number of issues. They are primarily: (1) whether the lease obligated the tenant to main tain public liability insurance coverage for its alleged subtenant’s business activity on the premises; (2) if so, whether either the doctrine of impossibility of performance or a provision of the lease prevented the landlord from terminating the lease when the tenant failed to maintain such insurance; (3) whether the tenant lost the benefit of favorable lease provisions by failing to vacate the…