GILROY
– Owners of embattled 5-Day Furniture Warehouse – Gilroy’s
largest and newest furniture store – announced they will file a
lawsuit against the city, claiming officials wrongly restricted the
store’s retail sales privileges.
GILROY – Owners of embattled 5-Day Furniture Warehouse – Gilroy’s largest and newest furniture store – announced they will file a lawsuit against the city, claiming officials wrongly restricted the store’s retail sales privileges.
The combination wholesale-retail store will ask a judge for broader retail sales rights.
The store’s lawyers also are considering seeking damages for what co-owner Hai Tran called slanderous comments made by Gilroy Mayor Tom Springer.
“The mayor called me an idiot. He used the term idiotic. He called me a liar,” Tran said. “We don’t need monease right now.”
5-Day Furniture’s decision to sue the city comes days after City Council’s 5-2 vote determining the store violated its business license and zoning guidelines by regularly selling retail furniture out of their 500 E. Luchessa Ave. building.
