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By Dave Toplikar (contact) 
Friday, Aug. 24, 2012 | 4:26 p.m.
The owners of Radio City Pizzeria, who were locked out of their retail space Monday morning at Tivoli Village at Queensridge in a rent dispute, have filed a lawsuit against the Summerlin-area shopping center.
Court records show Boulevard Group LLC, owners of Radio City Pizzeria, has filed a lawsuit in Clark County District Court against Great Wash Park LLC, the shopping center’s owners. Boulevard is seeking damages in excess of $10,000 and is trying to get back its property in the building.
Radio City, which is planning to open a pizzeria in the growing Fremont East District, was delinquent in paying rent to Tivoli Village, according to a notice posted Monday at on the shop’s exterior, when the locks were changed.
Chris Austin, an attorney for Boulevard, did not want to comment on the lawsuit.
In the lawsuit, the pizza shop owners said that before they entered a lease in 2010 and installed $800,000 worth of furniture, fixtures and equipment, they were told their shop would be located next to several national retail chain stores, including Apple and Michael Kors retail outlets.
The lawsuit also said the pizza shop was told the shopping center would have residents living nearby and would be near a park and recreation area that would have regular family events.
In the lawsuit, the pizza shop owners said because the shopping center didn’t deliver the tenant mix and finish developing the property, they didn’t get the promised business, so the terms of the lease were broken.
Boulevard also disputes the amount of money Great Wash Park says it is owed in its lockout notice and says the shopping center has no right to the equipment in the locked building.
Earlier this month, a proposal by the pizza shop owners to open a new downtown location at 508 Fremont St. was approved by the Las Vegas Planning Commission.
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We want pizza. The pizza employees aren't getting paid because of this dispute. It is always the little guy who get hurt.
I got a couple of statements to say.
1)Tivoli Village is beautiful and only one third complete. It was also promised that a movie multiplex would be on that property. It looks nice, but there are only a handful of places there.
2)With Radio City Pizza moving to 508 East Fremont, Uncle Joe's Pizza is just literally across the street @ 505 East Fremont. I know there will be a great competition for Pizza Dominance in Downtown. Keep Up the great work JOE!
3) My son & I wanted to go to the Tivoli Village location on Thursday night and were very disappointed on finding it closed. It made the store owner look like a dead beat when it was stated on the glass door for failure to pay $76Thousand on said location. There is nothing near this pizza shop in retail, I was surprised I even found the location.
People are staying home and eating Degzornio or Tony's or grilled cheese
I would be interested in finding out if Radio City stiffed any of their Contractors who did the build out of the space for them........
"2)With Radio City Pizza moving to 508 East Fremont, Uncle Joe's Pizza is just literally across the street @ 505 East Fremont. I know there will be a great competition for Pizza Dominance in Downtown."
Vegasvampire -- if you're looking for good pizza downtown go a few more blocks east to Sicilia Pizza, next to the USA Hostel. Jimmy cooks the best pie I've found anywhere in this town. Be warned -- he delivers, but it ain't no yuppie hangout.
"Give me pizza or give me death!" -- Patrick Henryski
Great Wash Park LLC could have promised they'd clear a million in year 1, but without written proof of those terms the lawsuit has no merit. Radio City should have done their due diligence and conducted a market study on the location.
@VegasVampire..."2)With Radio City Pizza moving to 508 East Fremont, Uncle Joe's Pizza is just literally across the street @ 505 East Fremont. I know there will be a great competition for Pizza Dominance in Downtown. Keep Up the great work JOE!"
Who would "Eat at Joe's." He has publicly admitted he has no confidence in the value of his food and service. I'm surprised he hasn't demanded that the city ban all pizza places within a five mile radius of his shop.
If Joe's pies can't compete with the food from a roach coach, I'm sure Radio City will shutter that dive in no time.
"He has publicly admitted he has no confidence in the value of his food and service."
I'd love to see that quote.
Thekube,
100% correct. Simple contract law.
Sounds like a deadbeat. Don't pay the rent get evicted...very simple. My previous landlord said the neighborhood was safe and quiet. It was neither. Should I file a lawsuit and get back the rent I actually PAID?
@James...After reading this story (confidence in the value of his food and service.)from earlier this year, one can only draw the conclusion that the owners has confidence in the value of his food and service.
If he didn't feel threatened by another product, why try to keep it away from his store?
Instead he crawled and cried and begged for the government to help protect him. So his business. HE DIDN'T BUILD IT......
Radio City Pizzeria - decent pizza, horribe service.