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Court Adjudicates Consequences of Tenant’s Removal of Improvements Made by Landlord
Commercial leases often require the tenant to vacate and deliver the space back to the landlord at the end of the term in the condition of the premises at the beginning of the lease. But, as a recent case illustrates, the landlord and tenant may disagree on whether or not certain improvements may or may not be removed where the cost of installation was shared by the parties.
Wallkill Medical Development, LLC, as landlord, and Medi-Fair, Inc., as tenant, entered into a 10-year commercial lease with regard to the ground floor of a newly constructed medical office building located in Middletown.
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