The Golden State Warriors are suing a San Francisco-based landscaping company, alleging that the company’s shareholders owe more than $4 million in rent and hospitality fees for a stadium suite they leased in 2019. According to the suit, filed Wednesday in San Francisco County Superior Court, a local landscaping company is deep in debt on an 11-year lease for a suite at Chase Center, in part because the company is allegedly “a mere shell and sham without capital, assets, stock or stockholders.
The suit says the Warriors sent a notice of default to Bauman Landscape on March 15, 2023, saying they owed $771,655.50 to the Warriors. Bauman Landscape did not make the payment, the lawsuit alleges, so the Warriors sent them a letter on Aug. 8, 2023, stating the license would be terminated and requesting payment for the eight remaining years on the contract, in addition to the two unpaid years and the late fees for those missed payments.