In the other, a single corporate tenant has 80 percent of the space on an old lease at $11 a square foot.

Barbara happened to know that Sidney's old lease had only a few months to run.

The new landlord, he said, was even willing to buy out the old lease.

"We were going to wait a couple of weeks until our old lease was up," she said.

There is nothing in either the old lease or the new one regarding refrigerators.

By the time its old lease ran out, the company had been paying about $25 a foot.

What's important is that under the old lease, the team could option out after the 1999-2000 season.

"It's a way to get out of the old lease with them to get a new one," he said.

"I'm trying to get him to comply with the old lease," he said.

Under the old lease, the city paid less than $23,000 a month.