A Lack Of Concern

For The Community

To the Editor:

I wish to add my protest to that expressed by other concerned Newtown residents and consumers of the Sand Hill Shopping Center over the arrogant behavior of their landlord, Edens and Avant, toward their tenants. The summary evictions and breaking of leases of these hardworking and, by all accounts, successful tenants, without payment for their losses or extension till they find other space, looks to me, technically legal, but definitely unethical and certainly not the acts of anyone I would like to do business with.

Edens has already shown their lack of concern for this community by the way they refused to consider a joint entry between their premises and the coming South Plaza mall next to them. That joint entry would have been safer and more convenient for the consumers but was seemingly of no concern to Edens.

Now, again, they have shown their lack of concern for hardworking, mostly minority, tenants who have provided a rich variety of services for the local community, paid their rent, presumably abided by their leases, only to be summarily ejected. That’s not the type of Newtown citizen I care to patronize. I’m ashamed they are my neighbor. I hope they will be shamed into coming forth to remunerate their tenants to the extent of their losses; help them find other space; or extend their time until they find space so people are not unnecessarily put out of work. That is, act like an ethical landlord.

I have been an exclusive patron of Sand Hill Shopping Center but I will take my business elsewhere rather than patronize that kind of citizen. I will actively encourage my neighbors to do the same.

I hope that this notice and the others like it generate a positive response from Edens.

Very truly your,

Mary Curran

41 Cold Spring Road, Newtown                              October 25, 2005