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Court rules that Gap owes Kingston landlord more than $200,000 in unpaid rent

An Ontario court ruled in favour of a Kingston landlord against the Gap over unpaid rent. Gap closed a long-running store in Kingston last year due to the pandemic. Global Kingston

A court has ruled that Gap owes more than $200,000 in unpaid rent to a Kingston landlord after closing up shop in the city last year.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled in favour of the Braebury Development Corporation in late August.

After operating a Gap store on Princess Street since the early ’90s, the corporation decided to shut down the location in May 2020 due to the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to court documents, the Gap did not pay rent for April or May 2020, and only made partial rent payments from June 2020 to September 2020.

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The company permanently closed the store and left the property in September 2020.

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The Gap argued that it did not have to pay the $208,000 in arrears because of the burdens caused by the pandemic, but the court disagreed with that argument.

Braebury did not respond to a request for comment.

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