Actuality TV star Lisa Vanderpump’s West Hollywood restaurant on Santa Monica Boulevard, which opened in 2014, might very properly shut quickly until the restaurant manages to work out a brand new long-term lease. Vanderpump, who doesn’t personal the Pump constructing, has been thus far unable to ink a brand new cope with the landlords, and simply this week a brand new actual property itemizing confirmed the Pump house as up for grabs.
That’s not all. Earlier this month, Pump had its liquor license revoked by the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Management board, although it has since been reinstated. Quickly after, Lisa Vanderpump spoke to Leisure Tonight in regards to the myriad troubles on the restaurant, together with the chance that the enterprise could also be bought, or that the lease could merely not be renewed.
In that ET report, an unnamed supply says the restaurant has struggled because the begin of the pandemic, and will not be doing properly financially. Pump has been a fixture on actuality tv for the previous decade, serving as a backdrop to all the scandal, intrigue, and popcorn drama from inside the Vanderpump Guidelines empire. Most lately, that drama has moved over to Franklin Village’s Schwartz & Sandy’s, the place a dishonest scandal has engulfed one proprietor of the Vanderpump-adjacent restaurant (and naturally it’s all enjoying out on tv). Co-owner Tom Sandoval says that restaurant is now struggling financially as properly.
Whatever the cash and the tv fame, Pump wants a brand new lease with the intention to proceed working in West Hollywood. Vanderpump instructed ET that her workforce has “an awesome relationship with the owner, and are at present discussing re-signing our lease,” although actual property dealer Leslie Haro says that the owner continues to be actively wanting “for a long-term tenant,” per ET. Haro’s CityStreet Industrial brokerage simply yesterday despatched round a list asserting the provision of the “iconic” restaurant house in West Hollywood. The itemizing doesn’t specify monetary phrases, however states {that a} ten-year lease is on supply and that the tackle ought to be out there inside the subsequent 90 days. What that finally means for Pump stays to be seen.
This isn’t the primary time the mercurial tv star has discovered herself struggling within the hospitality enterprise. Vanderpump’s upscale Villa Blanca closed in 2020 after failing to discover a appropriate purchaser for years. Vanderpump was additionally sued for $100,000 in 2021 by West Central Produce for non-payment of delivered items to eating places Pump and Villa Blanca.
