its a service agreement.
Who cares? The Center Serving Persons with Mental Retardation and the city of Houston.
If a lease is a lease, the center has to vacate property rented to it by the city for 99 years in the early 1960s. If its a service agreement, they dont.
We'll get into the politics of this later. Use this Chron blog entry as a starting point to catch up on the story.
Its a classic big v little guy match up.