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Lawyers for the landlord at the Civic Center Plaza filed an unlawful detainer lawsuit Tuesday against the city of San Diego, raising the stakes in an escalating conflict over a pair of lease-purchase agreements signed years ago by both parties.
An unlawful detainer is a legal way for a landlord to evict a tenant. It is often used in cases when rent or lease payments are not being paid.
This legal maneuver comes one month after City Attorney Mara Elliott announced she was seeking to void the city’s 2015 Civic Center Plaza deal and a similar agreement for the vacant high rise at 101 Ash St., which has been unusable for all but a few weeks since the city leased that property in 2017.