Vendors were expected to have vacated their booths by the end of this week — or be locked out and have their goods confiscated and moved off-site into storage at their expense.
Attorneys representing vendors at the Little Village Discount Mall filed an emergency injunction Tuesday to prevent the imminent lockout of about 40 vendors from the south side of the storied mall on March 26.
If vendors are locked out of the mall, the complaint filed Tuesday states, they would potentially face irreparable harm and suffer the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars of merchandise and goods, given that they operate on small margins and day-to-day sales.“ took the benefits of collecting rent from these people all this time.
Vendors at the Little Village mall — a culturally rich site of generational significance — sell a variety of goods, including Central and South American instruments, handcrafted boots and cowboy hats, Spanish-language and Latin American music, film and art, handmade jewelry and clothing for birthdays, proms, quinceañeras, baptisms and christenings, and electronics, home goods, snacks and food.
Canon said his clients should be considered tenants — and not week-to-week licensees, as the operators claim they are — and thus they have all the rights that a tenant would have under a lease agreement. Furthermore, he said, the mall operators haven’t claimed that vendors are defaulting on rent payments or that they have broken any rent agreement terms.
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