News SeaWorld Seattles Lawsuit with San Diego for $8.5 Million

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Jesus, they didn’t think to pay even when the pandemic happened?
 
Fiender said:
"You owe us money and here's proof."
"I... disagree."

I'd expect that kind of response from Peter Griffin, not a major company.
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San Diego: You owe us money.
SEAS:
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This article talks about the claims that SeaWorld made as to why they are not required to pay the $10 million in back rent and the counterclaims from San Diego city officials.

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SeaWorld Still Owes San Diego $10 Million in Back Rent Despite ‘Robust’ Summer Revenue

There’s a continuing saga of how SeaWorld owes the City of San Diego nearly $10 million in back rent. And this despite the park’s “robust” revenue intake this past summer. T…
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I wonder how fast SEAS will pay their rent if the city says they are going to pull their business license if they don't. Also SEAS releases it's first quarter 2023 financial results tomorrow so it will be interesting to see if they again made a profit for the quarter and if so how much and if paying SD would even put much of a dent in it.
 
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Hello everyone,
I have come to reply about my earlier possibly upsetting remark I left
I meant this in the context of the episode “go fund yourself” where Eric cartman and his friends buy the rights to the Washington’s redskins name using gofundme, and use it to tell people to well go f themselves. I’m truly sorry if my remarks made any people feel hurt and I again did not mean it in a discriminatory way

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Coasternerd said:
Jesus, they didn’t think to pay even when the pandemic happened?
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It's more complexed them that they did pay some rent in 2020 and have resumed paying the percentage of income that they owe for 2021 and 2022 the issue is an argument over how much they should have paid as an alternative to the a percentage of income for 2020 as the city and state issued orders preventing them from opening and generating income. That certainly is getting into some interesting legal areas that might generate a defense.

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I wonder how fast SEAS will pay their rent if the city says they are going to pull their business license if they don't. Also SEAS releases it's first quarter 2023 financial results tomorrow so it will be interesting to see if they again made a profit for the quarter and if so how much and if paying SD would even put much of a dent in it.
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It should be noted that even from the city side this is only a dispute over 2020 rent 2021 and 2022 appear to have been paid and paid as a percentage of income so would it be in the cities interest to pull the license and loose that percentage of income?
 
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What the city doesn't acknowledge is that unlike other business tenants who were able to operate in some capacity throughout the entire pandemic, SeaWorld was unable to operate the entire summer season (March 2020 - September 2020), and could not return to full operations until April 2021. Forcing them to pay rent for the time they were unable to operate is insane considering that they lost millions of $$ during that time period. If anything, SeaWorld should be asking for a rent reduction proportionate to a percent of the money they lost due to California's extremely strict COVID policies.
 
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What the city doesn't acknowledge is that unlike other business tenants who were able to operate in some capacity throughout the entire pandemic, SeaWorld was unable to operate the entire summer season (March 2020 - September 2020), and could not return to full operations until April 2021. Forcing them to pay rent for the time they were unable to operate is insane considering that they lost millions of $$ during that time period. If anything, SeaWorld should be asking for a rent reduction proportionate to a percent of the money they lost due to California's extremely strict COVID policies.
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Even more so when you consider that their rent is normally based on a percentage of income which we know was zero after March of 2020. The city even acknowledges that SEAS paid their rent for the period that they operated in 2020.
 
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SWSD has failed to pay the city of San Diego $12.2 million in back rent by the September 6th deadline. Unless SWSD made a new agreement with the city of San Diego, a lawsuit will be filled against them.

News report from September 6th:
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SeaWorld still hasn't paid $12.2 million in back rent payments: San Diego City Attorney

The San Diego City Attorney’s office says the deadline has passed for SeaWorld to pay $12.2 million in back rent to the city.
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The case has been moved to federal court and pretrial hearings are set for April after efforts to reach an out of court settlement failed.

www.sandiegouniontribune.com

San Diego, SeaWorld fail to settle lawsuit demanding $12M in back rent from theme park

The city of San Diego and SeaWorld, which are butting heads over a legal claim that the theme park owes more than $12 million in back rent and fees, failed to settle the dispute in federal court th…
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