More than two years after closing the iconic diner on Broadway, The Pig Stand owners have agreed to pay nearly $14,000 to landlord GrayStreet Partners to settle a lawsuit over unpaid rent.
Mary Ann Hill closed the 101-year-old restaurant in March 2023, citing health concerns.
Her attorney, Max Chamberlain, said Hill and GrayStreet reached an agreement without going to trial.
“She’s happy to be past that chapter in her life,” Chamberlain said. “She didn’t want to go through a long, drawn out trial.”
GrayStreet owns the property through Kem Texas, a limited liability partnership. The company filed the lawsuit against the Pig Stand in March 2025.
In an amended complaint filed in May, GrayStreet’s lawyers alleged that the restaurant had begun to fall behind on rent payments in February 2023 and owed the landlord $17,100 and had been selling alcohol on the premises in violation of the lease.
An agreed final judgement, filed jointly Oct. 9, outlined that the Pig Stand had sold and served alcohol and should pay $11,400 in back rent and $2,500 in attorneys’ fees.
Chamberlain said Hill is enjoying retirement after working for a half-century in the restaurant business.
She started working at the Pig Stand 50 years ago as a waitress, he added, and took over as owner more than a decade ago.
GrayStreet and its attorneys did not comment on the case.
The Broadway property, where The Pig Stand occupies, is valued at just over $4.7 million, according to the Bexar County Appraisal District. Its value increased by more than $1 million since 2023.
In 2024, a demolition permit for the building was requested and approved by the city’s Office of Historic Preservation. As of Oct. 22, the building was still standing.
GrayStreet had planned to build a 23-acre, mixed-use community called Broadway East San Antonio nearby, but sold the land during the COVID-19 pandemic.