A Coronado real estate company owned by Chula Vista Mayor John McCann is locked in a court battle with the landlord of the company’s former headquarters, which alleges in a lawsuit that McCann’s company owes the landlord $650,000 in unpaid rent and fees.
But McCann’s company says in a counter-suit that it is the landlord who should pay because years of neglect at the landlord’s office complex across the street from the historic Hotel Del Coronado caused mold, leaks and a sewage rupture that forced McCann’s company to break its lease and move out earlier this year.
The landlord, Chicago real estate company Madison Desplaines LLC, sued McCann’s company in May, alleging that the company, Coronado Shores Co., abruptly moved out of its $13,283-per-month ground-floor office suite and changed the locks in February without paying several months’ worth of past-due rent and the remaining balance on a five-year lease…