Co‑tenancy intelligence for retail tenants
Somewhere in your portfolio,a clause just triggered.
A co‑tenancy failure can be worth six figures a year on a single store — and it is still found by a district manager noticing a dark storefront. Breakpoint watches the centers you occupy and flags when a test may have failed, with the evidence attached.
- 24–48 hrs
- to your first evaluated center
- One lease
- or an entire national portfolio
- Recurring
- evaluation as verified conditions change
Three named tenants dark. Occupancy at 67.8% against a 70% floor. The condition appears to have held for nine months.
The detection problem
The system of record is a district manager’s memory.
Traditional lease platforms store your co‑tenancy clause. What they don’t hold is what your center looks like right now. So the trigger event — the thing actually worth money — gets spotted by whoever happens to walk the mall.
“Identification of a co‑tenancy violation is often a difficult undertaking since it is incumbent upon store staff and regional management to note closures and keep the corporate office informed.”
That is the state of the art at companies operating a thousand stores. Not a failure of diligence — a failure of instrumentation. Nobody gave these teams a feed.
Interactive demonstration
Close a storefront. Watch your lease react.
One shopping center, one lease — the outlined unit is your store. Pick a scenario or click any other storefront to close it (“going dark,” in lease terms). Breakpoint re‑runs your co‑tenancy tests and shows the potential impact on your rent.
Fairmount Collection
Dublin, OH · 628,000 SF · fictional center, real clause mechanics
Tap any storefront to close it — everything recalculates.Click any storefront to close it — everything recalculates instantly.
Named anchors
Named inline stores + you
Tap a store to close or reopen it. The other 23 storefronts stay as the scenario sets them — the drawn plan on larger screens shows every unit.
Every co-tenancy test in this lease is currently satisfied. Close a storefront on the map — or pick a scenario above — and watch the lease react.
119,150 SF of 131,250 SF non-anchor space · lease floor 70%
- Named Anchor TestSatisfied
≥ 2 of 3 Named Anchors open & operating
§4.3(a) observed: 3 of 3 open
- Named Inline TestSatisfied
≥ 4 of 6 Named Inline Tenants open & operating
§4.3(b) observed: 6 of 6 open
- Occupancy TestSatisfied
≥ 70% of non-anchor GLA open & operating
§4.3(c) observed: 90.8% occupied
A healthy center. Three vacancies, every named tenant trading, occupancy comfortably above the floor. Nothing to claim — and this is the state almost every lease file quietly assumes is still true.
The notice clock
The clause doesn’t pay retroactively. It pays from the day you notice.
In this lease — as in many — alternative rent commences on the first day of the month following written notice. Not the day the anchor went dark. Not the day occupancy crossed the floor. Which makes detection speed the entire product.
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The condition appears to have existed for nine months — but the remedy only begins after written notice. Undetected, those months can’t be captured.
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On one store, in one center. Breakpoint’s entire job is to move that marker left.
Illustrative, based on the sample lease used throughout this site: an estimated $18,917/mo rent difference on a 3,850 SF store. Whether a remedy applies depends on the executed lease.
How it works
Read the clause. Watch the center. Catch the collision.
- 01Abstract
The lease and every amendment become testable rules, each field citing the sentence it came from.
- 02Watch
We assemble what each center actually looks like — closures, filings, permits, field verification.
- 03Trigger
Every test re-runs as conditions change. The day one fails, the right person hears about it.
- 04Package
The notice materials, citations, evidence and calculations arrive as one package for your team and counsel.
The workspace
Upload through the portal. Watch it come back as money math.
Submit leases in your Breakpoint workspace and evaluations come back inside it — portfolio status at a glance, potential triggers flagged, and every finding one click from its review package.
§4.3(b) named inline and §4.3(c) occupancy tests appear to have failed. Estimated relief $18,917/mo, pending your review and written notice.
Product rendering with illustrative sample data — not client results.
Why this isn’t a feature
Your lease holds half the problem. The center holds the other half.
Most lease suites track the clause — a field in a record, entered once. The trigger lives outside the document, in a center that changes every week. Breakpoint is built on joining the two. And if you hold one lease instead of a thousand, the “system” is a filing cabinet — the gap is the same.
Your documents + the center’s reality
The Breakpoint engine
- Visual Lease
- Tango
- CoStar Real Estate Manager
- MRI
- Yardi
- IBM TRIRIGA
- Lucernex
Named as the systems Breakpoint is built to sit on top of. Not a claim of partnership, certification or endorsement by any of them.