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Lineage sues Altus Power and CBRE's Pearce Services over Boyle Heights fire
Lineage has filed a civil lawsuit in Los Angeles against Altus Power and CBRE subsidiary Pearce Services over negligence in a fire incident. The industrial REIT alleged that negligence by the two companies caused a fire on June 17 that destroyed Lineage's 500K sq. ft. cold storage facility in Boyle Heights. "This lawsuit is about Altus and Pearce starting this fire and then being nowhere to be found when the community needed help," said Lineage CEO Greg Lehmkuhl. The lawsuit stated, "This was a solar fire, not a warehouse fire." Altus Power, a commercial solar operator, was acquired by TPG through its TPG Rise Climate Transition Infrastructure strategy last year.