Hello, I am new to this forum but I though I would give it a shot. I am in the hotel business and just built my first hotel. Unfortunately I lost a lot of money due to large corporations holding me up for over 2 years. my partners and I aquired some land that was purchased from a General Growth owned mall that included tenants such as Sears, Jc penny, and Dillards. The mall was built in the 70's so had strict rules that if anyone was to purchase any of the land surrounding it from the mall they would have to get approvals from the larger tenants which were these three.. Well usually this isn't a big deal because a mall loves to have a hotel come in adjacent to it so that it provides more business to the mall. Well in 2005 we had everything ready to go to move forward in building the hotel just needed these three tenants to sign off. Sears and Jc Penny had no problem but dillards claimed that the hotel would block their view from a side road entering the mall (not even the main road). We knew it was just a ploy to get something out of us. So we asked what do we need to do to resolve this issue. We went back and forth for several months and they would not respond. So we hired an attorney that costed over $20,000 by the end of this to get it sorted out after flying back and forth to chicago to tulsa. Dillards eventually made us to build the mall a brand new $50,000 sign with led display. Also By this time two years had passed and the hotel market in the area was doing extremely well and we were very upset that dillards had set us back 2 years and we still hadn't started construction yet. Also keep in mind all the interest that was accruing on the land and other borrowed money. And by the way this is a rural town with less than 40,000 population and the hotel is just a small 90 room holiday inn express. So these costs were tremendous to us not to mention the lost income. Oh and after dillards decided to do all this, Sears came back and said they needed $20,000 to move forward. Thats when I said is this really legal what they're doing to us. Finally we ended up starting construction in january of 2008 and opened in 2009. Business went from booming to recession. I fear that overall all this set us back about 2-2.5 million. Does anyone have any advice for me, if I should go after Dillards or General Growth, or Sears for that matter. Although sears only demanded the money after dillards had taken up all the time and basically made an unreasonable demand that we had to go with in order to move forward and not lose any more time. Please help anyone!