Brad Bradshaw sues current, former owners of Plaza Towers in rent dispute

Last edited 3:42 p.m., Aug. 22, 2025 [Editor's note: More information has been added.]

More legal fallout surrounding Plaza Towers is working its way through the courts following a foreclosure sale that resulted in changed ownership earlier this year.

In a lawsuit filed Aug. 15 in Greene County Circuit Court, Springfield-based trial attorney Brad Bradshaw is suing two LLCs linked to his office landlord and current Plaza Towers owner Trent Overhue: Omant Accommodator I LLC and AMP Commercial LLC. In the same lawsuit, Bradshaw is also suing Springfield Property LLC, a company linked to former Plaza Towers owner Marco Denis, and OMB Bank, the mortgage holder for the building, according to the lawsuit petition.

Bradshaw is alleging multiple counts including breach of contract, unjust enrichment and wrongful eviction.

Bradshaw was a tenant in the Plaza Towers office building at 1736 E. Sunshine St., at the intersection with Glenstone Avenue, since approximately 2000 until this month, his office confirmed Aug. 18. Jenna Homeyer, an attorney with the Law Offices of Brad Bradshaw, said Bradshaw’s law firm is now practicing from offices in the John Q. Hammons Building.

Homeyer declined to answer additional questions about the suit from Springfield Business Journal.

Bradshaw says in his lawsuit that while renting from at least two landlords who owned Plaza Towers, he has prepaid his yearly rent in a lump sum: $133,860 per year, which was agreed to in writing back in 2023, when Bradshaw signed a five-year lease to rent three Plaza Towers suites from Denis’ Springfield Property LLC.

But, Bradshaw argued in the lawsuit, he’s vacating Plaza Towers as of Aug. 18, just days after the suit was filed, because he is “faced with the immediate threat of eviction and potential disruption” to his law practice by the current owner of Plaza Towers.

Bradshaw alleges that current owner Overhue “demanded that (Bradshaw) pay additional rent for 2025” – in addition to prepaid rent for the year that Bradshaw says he already remitted to his landlord back at the end of 2024. According to the lawsuit, Overhue asked Bradshaw to sign a new lease agreement “at increased cost for the remainder of 2025” or be evicted.

The lawsuit alleges that early this month, Overhue “issued an ultimatum” to Bradshaw demanding that he vacate the premises within three days, a move Bradshaw argues violates Missouri law because he was complying with his lease and had paid his rent.

SBJ was not successful by press time in reaching  Overhue, an attorney for Marco Denis or an attorney for OMB Bank.

Bradshaw’s lawsuit states he signed a commercial lease with Denis’ company on Oct. 31, 2023, to rent three suites in Plaza Towers for $133,860 per year. The suit argues that Bradshaw had established an arrangement with the building owner that preceded Denis to “prepay an entire year’s rent in advance in exchange for a discount” and that Denis’ company had agreed, in writing, to continue this arrangement for the five-year lease signed in October 2023.

Bradshaw argues he prepaid all of the 2024 rent he owed to Springfield Property LLC on Dec. 15, 2023, in the amount of $133,860. At the end of 2024, he says he prepaid his 2025 rent with a check in the same amount, which he argues was deposited and cashed by Springfield Property using accounts the company held at OMB Bank. The bank’s mortgage on the Plaza Towers property predated Bradshaw’s lease, according to the lawsuit.

After Bradshaw leased the three office suites, he alleges in his lawsuit that Springfield Property defaulted on its mortgage payments, and afterward, OMB Bank initiated foreclosure proceedings, seizing Springfield Property bank accounts that contained Bradshaw’s $133,860 rent payment and possibly applying those funds toward Springfield Property’s mortgage debt.

In April, Overhue’s company Omant Accommodator I LLC bought Plaza Towers in the foreclosure sale. Bradshaw argues his lease was assumed by the new landlord, including his rent prepayment for 2025.

Along with the payment disputes, Bradshaw alleges Plaza Towers “suffered from numerous maintenance issues,” among them leaking windows, foul odors coming from restrooms and inadequate heating and cooling.

He is asking the courts for $49,459 in “unused rent” for Aug. 18 through the remainder of this year, along with unspecified “emergency relocation” and “new space preparation” costs, “business interruption losses” and additional costs such as prejudgment interest. Bradshaw also asks the court to enter a declaratory judgment finding that his Oct. 31, 2023, lease with Springfield Property LLC remains valid, and he is seeking an accounting and constructive trust to determine how the 2025 rent he says he prepaid was used.

As SBJ reported on Aug. 12, Denis on Aug. 6 sued the new ownership under Overhue, alleging multiple claims, including that the new ownership allegedly seized $9.2 million in personal property.

Overhue purchased the 10-story, 130,000-square-foot Plaza Towers property for nearly $13.4 million at an April foreclosure sale.

Denis is currently incarcerated in the Phelps County Jail, according to online jail records. State and federal court records show he awaits trial on state charges of first- and second-degree felony domestic assault, felony kidnapping and felony tampering with physical evidence, as well as federal charges of unlawful firearm possession and two counts of making false statements while buying a firearm.