{"id":17601,"date":"2025-10-23T15:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/17601\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:09:13","slug":"the-pig-stand-owner-agrees-to-pay-graystreet-back-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/17601\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pig Stand owner agrees to pay GrayStreet back rent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Ann Hill closed the 101-year-old restaurant in March 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/san-antonios-week-in-photos-march-5-11\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">citing health concerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her attorney, Max Chamberlain, said Hill and GrayStreet reached an agreement without going to trial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s happy to be past that chapter in her life,\u201d Chamberlain said. \u201cShe didn\u2019t want to go through a long, drawn out trial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>GrayStreet owns the property through Kem Texas, a limited liability partnership. The company filed the lawsuit against the Pig Stand in March 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an amended complaint filed in May, GrayStreet\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019 fees.<\/p>\n<p>Chamberlain said Hill is enjoying retirement after working for a half-century in the restaurant business.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>GrayStreet and its attorneys did not comment on the case. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, a demolition permit for the building was requested and approved by the city\u2019s Office of Historic Preservation. As of Oct. 22, the building was still standing.<\/p>\n<p>GrayStreet had planned to build a 23-acre, mixed-use community called Broadway East San Antonio nearby, but <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\/search?q=GrayStreet+san+antonio+report&amp;oq=GrayStreet+san+antonio+report&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg80gEINDk5OGoxajeoAgCwAgA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sold the land<\/a> during the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than two years after closing the iconic diner on Broadway, The Pig Stand owners have agreed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7797,13683,8879,13684,13685,13686,82,84,83,13687,92,3028,3219],"class_list":["post-17601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-broadway","tag-broadway-east-san-antonio","tag-civil-court","tag-graystreet","tag-graystreet-partners","tag-pig-stand-lawsuit","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-the-pig-stand","tag-top-story","tag-typedaily","tag-wc-less-than-500"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}