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Where’s the beef?
Lawsuit. Embattled Mambo co-owner’s firm suing Morgaurd over terminated lease JOE LOFARO
joe.lofaro@metronews.ca
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A firm belonging to a restaurateur awaiting sentencing on two defamatory libel convictions has slapped a Toronto-based developer with a $1.5-million lawsuit after the developer terminated the company’s lease on the Elgin Street building that used to be Friday’s Roast Beef House. A numbered company belonging to Marisol Simoes and her husband Zadek Ramowski called 224 Inc. is alleging breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation against Morguard Elgin Ltd. in a statement of claim. According to the claim, 224 Inc. intended to operate an upscale restaurant at 150 Elgin Street. But the claim alleges Morguard misled the firm about the extensive renovations needed to refit a nearly 150-year-old building. None of the allegations in
the statement of claim have been proven in court. No statement of defence has been filed. Simoes and Ramowski coown Mambo Nuevo Latino and Kinki restaurants. The claim says their firm began renovating 150 Elgin, but couldn’t open a restaurant for a variety of reasons. They allege the developer beginning construction of a 21-storey highrise in the parking lot adjacent to the restaurant and numerous challenges relating to exits, power-supply deficiencies and concerns with the building’s heritage status caused delays. Morguard terminated the lease Dec. 23, 2011, due to the problems, the statement alleges. It also claims the developer was “unjustly enriched” by $300,000 by repossessing what 224 Inc. had invested in 150 Elgin. 224 Inc. alleges it lost sales and profits due to the lease termination. Simoes was found guilty Sept. 6 on two counts of defamatory libel for creating a fake online dating profile of a customer and sending lewd emails to her employer after the customer wrote a pair of negative reviews of Mambo in 2009. She will be sentenced Friday.
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