Date
July 10, 2026
Added to tracker
October 7, 2026
Court or forum
New York State Supreme Court
State
New York
Property type
Industrial
Amount / scale
$11M tenant-improvement allowance clawback sought, plus unpaid rent and additional damages
Parties
Plaintiff/Landlord: KSGDefendant/Tenant: BroadRange Logistics LLC

KSG, an entity led by Brooklyn-based landlord Leah Weiss, sued BroadRange Logistics LLC in New York state court, alleging the logistics operator pocketed an $11 million tenant-improvement allowance tied to a 600,000-square-foot warehouse in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania and then stopped paying rent. The $32 million allowance underlying the deal was funded in part through a commercial mortgage-backed securities loan KSG obtained from Ocean First Bank, and the complaint also names New Jersey investor Josh Malka and the deal's Mount Pocono attorney, seeking to claw back the allowance along with other damages.

Why it matters

The allegation that a tenant-improvement allowance was diverted rather than used for its intended buildout, paired with the tenant's subsequent rent defaults, raises fraud exposure beyond an ordinary lease-default dispute and highlights the risk landlords take on when a large allowance is advanced to a single tenant ahead of lease performance. Lenders who financed the allowance through a CMBS loan also have a direct stake in how the allegations play out, since any clawback or fraud finding could affect the collateral's underwriting basis.

A Brooklyn-based landlord has accused third-party logistics operator BroadRange Logistics LLC of pocketing an $11 million tenant-improvement allowance at a Pennsylvania warehouse and then simply stopping rent payments, in a lawsuit that extends a pattern of landlord disputes with the fast-growing logistics company. The suit, brought by KSG, an entity led by landlord Leah Weiss, was filed in New York state court and centers on a roughly 600,000-square-foot distribution facility in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania that BroadRange leased as a distribution hub.

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