Am I possible to sue the landlord who lied the amount of occupancy of the mall?

(I've asked this question, but not enough details, so i've add in more details for this post...thanks!) I signed a 2 years contract as a tenant with a new shopping mall, during my meeting with them before decided to sign the contact, they have said in confidence that 80% of the mall's lot has already been occupied. Based on this information, I agreed to take a lot & signed 2 years of contract and started business on the day of Grand Opening. But from that day till now, there's definitely no 80% occupied lots, its obviously only 30-40%. A lot of the tenants have moved out as business is really bad due to not enough visitors coming to the mall, and according to our survey with our customers, they said the mall is so empty, there's nothing to shop about, no point coming to the mall. so am I possible to sue the landlord who obviously lied about the percentage of the lot's occupancy, and claim for our(tenants) business losses? The 80% claim is not in the contract... they verbally claimed to have 80% occupancy. But what if they also did a big newspaper ads telling the whole town about their Grand Opening stating 70-80% occupied? The ads is for public, and it seems they lied to public too~... majority of the other tenants I surveyed, they told me the mall also said to them 70-80% occupancy, so what if I get several of the tenants to join up and be the witnesses? and the newspaper ads can be the evidence? Its a general purpose shopping mall, all kinds of shops can be in~... the day they mention 80% occupied is only 1-2 months before Grand Opening, from Grand Opening (31/8/2008) until now, there's not even 50% of the mall has shops opened, not even for a day! news reference: www ...

5 months ago - 7 answers