Z Cycle Shop is no longer open at Ninth Avenue and Corona Street after a months-long legal battle over shop modifications and landlord consent ended with an eviction order being dished out last week to the establishment.

In 2021, Z Cycle signed a ten-year lease for a unit at 1025 Ninth Avenue, the building owned by Katina Gatchis and largely managed by her son George Gatchis. The pair operate Capitol Hill Liquors across the street and took issue with changes that were made to the unit,  which the court agreed amounted to a breach of the lease.

Dimitri Rumschlat, Z Cycle’s owner, was working to transform what had long been a restaurant inside the space into a new bike shop. He contends all the modifications he made — from knocking out an ADA bathroom to removing old kitchen equipment — were to that aim, and that his landlord should have known that such renovations were necessary.

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