Judge orders sheriff to evict Twitter from Boulder office
A judge has ordered the Boulder sheriff to return possession of Twitter's office to the landlord, according to court documents.
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By Kate Tracy – Reporter , Denver Business Journal
Jun 13, 2023
Twitter is being evicted from one of its Boulder offices.
Following a complaint filed last month, a Boulder County judge has ordered the sheriff to remove Twitter from its offices at 3401 Bluff St. in Boulder, according to court documents
In 2020, the tech company signed a lease for four office suites at 3401 Bluff St., also known as the Railyards at S’Park. According to previous reporting, 300 Twitter employees once worked out of the 65,000-square-foot office there.
In May, Twitter’s landlord filed a complaint against its tenant Twitter, alleging that the company is behind on rent payments. The landlord is Lot 2 SBO LLC, affiliated with The John Buck Company, a Chicago-based real estate firm.
The complaint alleges that Twitter set up a letter of credit for $968,000 that the landlord could draw upon if the company failed to pay its rent, and the lease agreement said Twitter must replenish that letter of credit within 10 days if that were to happen.
The landlord used the letter of credit toward the unpaid rent this March, according to the complaint, but Twitter failed to restore the letter of credit within 10 days, as outlined in its lease.
Court documents say the landlord served Twitter with a “demand for compliance or possession” in April, meaning that Twitter needed to return possession of the property back to the landlord, or replenish the letter of credit within three days. Twitter did neither of those things, according to the complaint, and so the landlord has proceeded with terminating Twitter’s rights to the property.
Timothy Gordon and
Ryan Lundquist with Holland & Hart are the attorneys representing The John Buck Company in its case against Twitter.
The John Buck Company and its attorneys did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Twitter’s response to a request for comment regarding its Boulder offices was an automatic email with a poop emoji. Twitter CEO
Elon Musk tweeted in May that this is the new auto-response for press inquiries.
A judge filed the “writ of restitution” ordering the sheriff to evict Twitter on May 31, which is in effect for 49 days.
In November,
38 Boulder employees of Twitter resigned after Musk’s ultimatum regarding a new level of commitment and “long hours at high intensity.” And prior to those resignations, Musk enacted widespread layoffs at the company, which affected 87 Boulder employees in November,
according to previous reporting.
Twitter is also in a legal dispute at its other offices, located at 1301 Walnut St., regarding $93,504 in unpaid cleaning fees, according to a separate complaint filed in May. BizWest has reported that Twitter is also behind on rent payments at that office as well, and the company was served a “demand for compliance or right to possession” in December.
The tech company is facing other lawsuits over unpaid rent at its other offices, including San Francisco and London, according to other media outlets.
Twitter has had a Boulder presence since 2014, when it
acquired Boulder-based tech company Gnip Inc.
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