1. The defendant argued that the promise to renew the lease was not sufficiently definite to support a claim for promissory estoppel. How did the court respond to this argument?

2. Suppose that the plaintiff’s costs in accommodating the defendant’s request had been $5,000 instead of $1,350,000. Would the outcome of this case have been any different? Why or why not?

Plaintiff is a company that owns a shopping plaza called Lammert Center located at 8801–8845 Ladue Road, St. Louis, Missouri. Defendant leased a portion of Lammert Center and operated a grocery business out of that space (.).