Red-team co-tenancy clauses before the lease is signed

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A developer signing retail leases before the whole site is built carries a risk a stabilised landlord does not: co-tenancy clauses measured against a shopping center that does not exist yet. An opening condition tied to 'seventy percent of the Floor Area of the Shopping Center' can suspend a new tenant's rent until you deliver buildings on acreage you have not started. Add the exclusives already granted to existing tenants, and one signature can hand an anchor a remedy against you. A red-team audit is the right posture because the question is not whether the lease reads well. Tell the model to attack: quote each trigger and remedy chain, test the prospect's use against every exclusive, check every defined term that points at a site plan, and treat silence as a gap. Every finding comes back as a question for counsel. The model never says the clause is fine and never says how likely a trigger is to fire.

Red-team this draft lease before I sign it. Quote every co-tenancy trigger and its remedy chain. Test the prospect's use against each existing exclusive, quoting the exclusive first. Check every defined term that points at a site plan or at land I have not built. Silence is a gap, not a pass. Frame each finding as a question for counsel. Then attack your own audit. [draft lease] [existing exclusives] [site plan note]