Kimco hit with damages suit for allegedly “destroying” Fort Lauderdale café business

Kimco Realty allegedly crushed a 27-year-old woman’s first brick-and-mortar business by doing massive construction and demolition work at the Fort Lauderdale retail plaza where she opened her coffee shop, according to a lawsuit.  Taylor Schear’s Sheer Hospitality sued Jericho, New York-based Kimco for $9 million in damages, alleging that the landlord started gutting the plaza days after she opened her Drip Coffee and, after she closed her café due to the disturbance, Kimco’s crews also expanded their work inside her retail unit. Sheer has continued to pay the $6,500 monthly rent for the unit and common area maintenance fees, but […]This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.