The Real McCoy may be staying put.
A lawyer for the beloved family owned fast-food restaurant in Scarborough believes the lease on the space on Markham Road south of Ellesmere Road, was improperly terminated and says her client intends to reopen at the same location Jan. 2 rather than looking for a new home.
“I reviewed the lease documentation and we’ve discovered that there exists no termination right enabling the landlord to have done what it did — and that it issued this termination notice to my client, essentially requiring that they leave at the end of this month, and it’s not allowed to do that,” said Lydia Pilch, founder and principal lawyer at Rgenesis Legal, in a telephone interview Monday.
The current lease expires at the end of March 2024 “and unless and until the parties reach an agreement to the contrary, my client intends to stay and reopen in January, after they take a much-needed vacation for a few days,” she said. “But otherwise, the landlord has our position, we’ve communicated it to them. We’ve not heard a response but we expect one to be forthcoming.”
Pilch added that “we are in amicable talks with them about arriving at such a decision.”
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