All Forum Posts by: Courtney Duong

Hi all,

So I manage a retail strip (9 units, 2 are vacant now) in Cypress, TX. In each of the lease that we are having with all of our current tenants we have a Landlord Prohibit Uses list below. Last week we had some showings for 1 vacant unit (1237 SF) and yesterday received an LOI from 2 guys who want to lease it for a cigar shop. Looking at the landlord prohibited uses list below, toward the end of the list we have 'smoking or vape store' as being prohibited so I am wondering if a cigar shop is the same as smoking shop, therefore we can't lease to a cigar shop? Or cigar shop and smoking shop/store are totally different and we can definitely lease to a cigar shop?

Thanks in advance for any feedbacks.

LANDLORD PROHIBITED USES

Landlord shall not use any portion of the Shopping Center or lease to a tenant for any of the following:

• adult book store
• adult novelty and lingerie shop
• amusement arcade
• amusement center
• animal boarding or raising
• automobile body shop
• automobile dealership
• automotive repairs and service
• billiard parlor
• bingo parlor
• boat sale or display
• bowling alley
• brothel
• car wash
• catering hall
• cult meeting place
• dance hall
• discotheque
• factory use
• firing range
• flea market
• funeral parlor
• game arcade/room
• gun store
• head shop
• hospital
• house of worship
• industrial use
• junkyard
• labor camp
• laundromat
• manufacturing use
• meeting hall
• mobile home park
• mobile home sales
• monument sales
• mortuary
• movie theater
• nightclub
• off-track betting parlor
• palm reader
• pawn shop
• place of public assembly
• plant nursey
• psychic
• religious organization
• sale, rental, repair, storage or service of trucks and/or trailers
• skating rink
• smoking or vape store
• stockyard
• strip club
• target range
• tattoo parlor
• taxidermist
• theater
• trailer court
• trailer sales
• warehouse use
  

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