Article: Marden's sued over use of Calais parking lot

A San Francisco developer filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Portland claiming that Marden's Surplus and Salvage store in Calais owed him more than $3 million in back rent for use of the store's parking lot on Main Street.

Marden's is a retail chain with approximately 850 employees, according to its Web site.

The lawsuit says that Sidney Unobskey owns the parking lot that the surplus store, without paying rent or receiving permission to do so, has allowed its customers to use for the past nine years. Unobskey, through attorney Glenn Israel of Portland, sued Marchin LTD, Marden's Inc. and Marden's Surplus and Salvage.

In 1990, Unobskey, who has a summer home in Robbinston, built ...

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