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Resident sues Harrisburg over buyout
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Published: January 13, 2010
HARRISBURG — Harrisburg has another lawsuit in the judicial hooper — this time from a resident.
Robert MacLeod, owner of the now-defunct Hibernian Hall, claims the town forced him to move out of Harrisburg Town Center and didn't pay him for moving out.
MacLeod said he is looking for $500,000 in damages.
But Harrisburg's position is MacLeod's lawsuit doesn't have merit since the town wasn't MacLeod's landlord to begin with, said town attorney Richard Koch. The town will ask that MacLeod's lawsuit be dismissed.
MacLeod said in 2008, then-town administrator Joel Davis talked to him about vacating his space in Harrisburg Town Center. The town owned the building, but did not manage the space in it. Harrisburg Town Center IV, which the town bought the building from, did.
MacLeod, in the lawsuit, claims he vacated the space after Davis said the town would pay him for leaving Town Center, but the payment never came. MacLeod said he was never able to reopen Hibernian Hall, his catering and event business.
Koch counters the town never had an agreement or a landlord/tenant relationship.
"We think we'll be able to show that," Koch said.
The town is in another lawsuit battle with Town Center IV, to which, Koch said, MacLeod's lawsuit is tangentially related.
Harrisburg Town Center IV, in its lawsuit filed Aug. 17, 2009, claims Harrisburg owes the developer about $365,000 in back fees stemming from the original contract the town had with HTC IV over the first floor office condominium in the Town Hall building.
The town countersued on Oct. 26, 2009, saying HTC IV owes the town about $112,000 in back rent through a period of two years. The countersuit also asks for the developer's lawsuit to be dismissed.
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