Common Area Costs. As used in this Lease, the term "Common Area ----------------- Costs" shall mean all expenses of Landlord with respect to the maintenance, servicing, repairing and operation of the Property, including, but not limited to the following: maintenance, repair, and replacement costs; electricity, fuel, water, sewer, gas and other utility charges; security, window washing and janitorial services; trash and snow and ice removal; landscaping and pest control; management fees payable to Landlord, Landlord's affiliates or third parties; wages and benefits payable to employees of Landlord whose duties are directly connected with the operation and maintenance of the Property; all services, supplies, repairs, replacement or other expenses for maintaining and operating the Property; the cost, including interest, amortized over its useful life, of any capital improvement made to the Property by Landlord after the date of this Lease which is required under any governmental law or regulation that was not applicable to the Property at the time it was constructed; the cost, including interest, amortized over its useful life, of installation of any device or other equipment which improves the operating efficiency of any system within the Premises and thereby reduces operating expenses; all other expenses which generally would be regarded as operating and maintenance expenses which would reasonably be amortized over a period not to exceed five (5) years; all real property taxes and installments of special assessments, including dues and assessments by means of deed restrictions and/or owner's association which accrue against the Property during the term of this Lease; governmental levies or charges of any kind or nature assessed or imposed on the Property, whether by state, county, city or any political subdivision thereof; and all insurance premiums Landlord is required to pay or deems necessary to pay, including public liability insurance, with respect to the Property. The term operating expenses does not include the following: expenses for repairs, restoration or other work occasioned by fire, wind, the elements or other casualty that are covered by insurance; income and franchise taxes of Landlord; expenses incurred in leasing to or procuring of tenants, leasing commissions, advertising expenses and expenses for the renovating of space for new tenants; interest or principal payments on any mortgage or other indebtedness of Landlord; compensation paid to any employee of Lan...
Common Area Costs. Tenant agrees to pay as Additional Rent during each lease year during the Term, Tenant’s Proportionate Share of the “Common Area Costs,” as hereafter defined. For purposes of this Lease, the term “Common Area Costs” shall mean all costs and expenses incurred by Landlord in operating, maintaining, repairing, lighting, signing, cleaning, painting, stripping, insuring, equipping, staffing, heating and cooling, securing, and policing of the Common Area, including, without limitation, all costs and expenses associated with the following items or services, which may be incurred by Landlord in its sole discretion: (i) maintaining and replacing any and all alarm and life safety systems and any fire alarm monitoring or testing service program or fire suppression system installed within the Premises or otherwise within the improvements which form a part of the Property, including without limitation any patrol services; (ii) maintenance of irrigation systems serving the Property; (iii) insurance, including, without limitation, liability insurance for personal injury, death and property damage, to the extent not reimbursed by Tenant under Section 13.2 below; (iv) surcharges levied upon or assessed against parking spaces or areas, payments toward mass transit or car pooling facilities or otherwise as required by federal, state or local governmental authorities; (v) all landscaping, including, but not limited to, lawn maintenance, new plantings and replacement of existing landscaping; (vi) repairing, cleaning, sweeping, painting, striping, replacing and repaving of paving, curbs, walkways, guardrails, bumpers, fences, screens, flagpoles, bicycle racks, signs and other markers, landscaping, drainage pipes, ducts, conduits, lighting facilities and all other Common Area site amenities; (vii) maintenance, repair and replacement of utility systems serving the Property, including, but not limited to, water, sanitary sewer and storm water lines and drainage systems (whether on-site or off-site), electrical, gas, telephone and lighting systems (including bulbs, poles, and fixtures) and other utility lines, pipes and conduits, and all payments of utility charges in connection with any of the foregoing systems; (viii) maintenance and repair of all portions of the buildings in the Property including, but not limited to, walls, roofs and roof flashings, canopies, skylights, signs, planters, benches, fire exits, doors and hardware, windows, glass and glazing; (ix) inspection, mainte...
Common Area Costs. Tenant shall pay Landlord for Landlord’s estimate of all Common Area Costs, as defined in this subparagraph, during the Lease Term. Such payments shall be made on a monthly basis in accordance with Section 4.06, below. All costs incurred by Landlord for the operation and maintenance of the Common Areas located on the Property, or for maintenance of which the owner of the Property is or shall be liable to contribute pursuant to applicable recorded restrictions, are herein referred to as “Common Area Costs”. Common Area Costs include, but are not limited to, costs and expenses for paving maintenance for the private common drive providing access to the Premises from various public streets; Project monument signage and landscaping: all real property taxes and assessments levied on or attributable to the Common Areas and all Common Area improvements; all personal property taxes levied on or attributable to personal property used in connection with the Common Areas; straight-line depreciation on personal property owned by Landlord which is consumed in the operation or maintenance of the Common Areas; rental or lease payments paid by Landlord for rented or leased personal property used in the operation or maintenance of the Common Areas; fees for required licenses and permits; repairing, resurfacing, repaving, maintaining, painting, lighting, cleaning, refuse removal, security and similar items; and a reasonable allowance (not to exceed five percent (5%) of the Common Area Costs) to Landlord for Landlord’s supervision of the Common Areas. Landlord may cause any or all of such services to be provided by third parties based upon prevailing market rates and the cost of such services shall be included in Common Area Costs. Common Area Costs shall not include interest on debt, capital retirement of debt or depreciation of real property which forms part of the Project; legal fees of Landlord incurred in connection with lease negotiations or enforcement; brokerage commissions; expenses for the renovation of space for new tenants; compensation paid to any employee of Landlord or agent above the grade of Building manager; costs associated with correcting any violation of law; costs due to Landlord’s breach of this Lease; costs relating to any art work or the like; political or charitable contributions; entertainment or travel expenses of Landlord or its employees, agents, partners and affiliates; reserves of any kind, including without limitation, replacement reserves and...
Common Area Costs. Tenant agrees to pay as provided below, as Additional Rent, Tenant’s Proportionate Share of all actual costs and expenses of every kind and nature as may be paid or incurred by Landlord during the Term (including appropriate reserves) in operating, managing, insuring, equipping, lighting, repairing and maintaining the Common Areas and in providing such security protection and fire protection for the Property as Landlord deems necessary, as determined in accordance with prudent accounting principles and allocated to any particular Lease Year on the accrual method of accounting. Such costs and expenses shall include, but shall not be limited to: general maintenance and repairs, resurfacing, striping and cleaning of the parking and driveway areas; snow removal; cleaning and repair of sidewalks, curbs, elevated walkways, stairways; maintenance and repair of the landscaping and the irrigation systems; maintenance and repair of the Property signs and the directional signs; maintenance and repair of the lighting systems in the parking and walkway areas; janitorial services in Common Areas; maintenance and repair of the storm drainage and sanitary sewer systems; maintenance and repair of the foundation, the roof, the exterior walls, the demising walls (i.e. walls separating Property tenants), sprinklers, the steel structure and load bearing walls; trash disposal; maintenance and repair of utility systems; the cost of water service to the Property (exclusive of the individual premises leased to tenants of the Property); the cost of electricity for lighting in the public areas; the wages and related payroll costs of personnel employed by Landlord to implement such services; premiums for Landlord’s public liability, property damage, fire and extended coverage insurance, and rental income insurance for the entire Property and any adjacent easement or license areas and all improvements therein; fees for required licenses and permits; supplies; and administrative costs equal to [***] ([***]%) percent of the Annual Basic Rent and common charges associated with the Condominium, if any. Landlord shall not be liable in damages or otherwise for any failure or interruption of any Common Area services being furnished the Property, and no such failure or interruption shall entitle Tenant to terminate this Lease. The slab, if any, within the Tenant’s Premises shall not be deemed a Common Area and shall be repaired by Landlord at Tenant’s sole cost and expense to be paid as provi...
Common Area Costs. (i) Costs are borne by Landlord and includes: (a) operating, maintaining, repairing, replacing, lighting (including without limitation the cost of the electricity therefor), cleaning, painting and striping of, and removing debris from, the Common Areas; compacting and removing garbage and trash from the Office Center, maintaining, repairing and replacing in the Common Areas, ducts, conduits and similar items, fire protection systems, sprinkler systems, utility, sprinkler and storm and sanitary drainage systems and other utility systems; (b) exterior planting, replanting and replacing flowers, shrubbery, plants, trees and other landscaping, and all water used to irrigate flowers, shrubbery, plants, trees and other landscaping located on the Common Areas; (c) repair and maintenance of the parking lot, including pest control of such areas and the cost of termite protection for the entire Office Center. (d) real estate taxes per section 17.
Common Area Costs. For purposes of calculating Tenants Allocable Share of Building and of Project Costs, the term "Common Area Costs" shall mean all costs and expenses of the nature hereinafter described which am incurred in connection with ownership and operation of the Building or the Project in which the Premises are located, as the case may be not directly allocable to or payable by a single tenant in the Building or the Project, together with such additional facilities as may be determined by Landlord to be reasonably desirable or necessary to the ownership and operation of the Building and/or Project. Common Area Costs shall not include any capital expenditures, except to the extent such expenditures benefit the occupants of the Project, Building, and Tenant during the term of the Lease and are amortized over the useful life of the property acquired or constructed as a result of such expenditure. All costs and expenses shall be determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles which shall be consistently applied (with accruals appropriate to Landlord's business), including but not limited to, the following:
Common Area Costs. The term "Common Area Costs", as used in this Lease, shall mean all costs and expenses incurred by Landlord in (a) operating, managing, policing, insuring, repairing and maintaining the Common Area and the on-site management and/or security offices, nonprofit community buildings and child care centers as may be located in the Project from time to time (which offices, buildings and center shall hereinafter be referred to as the "Joint Use Facilities"), (b) maintaining, repairing and replacing the exterior surface of exterior walls (and storefronts and storefront awnings if Landlord has elected to include the cleaning of same as part of Common Area maintenance) and maintaining, repairing and replacing roofs of the buildings from time to time constituting the Project, and (c) operating, insuring, repairing, replacing and maintaining all utility facilities and systems including, without limitation, sanitary sewer lines and systems, fire protection lines and systems, security lines and systems and storm drainage lines and systems not exclusively serving the premises of any tenant or store ("Common Utility Facilities"), mall furniture and equipment, seasonal and holiday decorations, Common Area lighting fixtures, Project sign monuments or pylons (but not the tenant identification signs thereon) and directional signage. Common Area Costs shall include the actual costs incurred by Landlord for personnel (whether employees of Landlord or third party contractors) employed in the management and operation of the Project. Common Area Costs shall include, without limitation, the following: Expenses for maintenance, landscaping, repaving, resurfacing, repairs, replacements, painting, lighting, cleaning, trash removal, security, management offices, year 2000 compliance, non-refundable contributions toward reserves for replacements, maintenance and/or repairs such as, but not limited to, major parking lot repairs and repainting of buildings, fire protection and similar items; depreciation or rental on equipment; charges, surcharges and other levies related to the requirements of any Federal, state or local governmental agency; expenses related to the Common Utility Facilities; Taxes on the improvements and land comprising the Common Area; comprehensive or commercial general liability insurance on the Common Area; standard "all risks" fire and extended coverage insurance with, at Landlord's option, an earthquake damage endorsement covering the Common Areas; costs of managem...
Common Area Costs. Lessee shall pay as additional Lease Rentals its prorata share of common area maintenance costs.
Common Area Costs. Tenant shall pay, as additional rent, to Landlord ----------------- Tenant's "proportionate share" of the reasonable cost and expense of all "Operating Costs" (as hereinafter defined) for the Building and the care for grounds around the Building (but specifically excluding all costs and expenses related to any portion of the Land not used by Tenant, including, without limitation, the parking area leased by Landlord to third parties), including, but not limited to the mowing of grass, maintenance of parking areas, entrances and driveways, security lighting, landscape maintenance and irrigation, water and sewer charges. Payment shall be made on the first day of each month based on the projected cost of such maintenance. At the end of each year, Landlord shall determine the actual costs of such maintenance. Any additional costs due from Tenant based on the actual costs shall be promptly paid by Tenant. Any savings will be, at Tenant's option, either credited against the following years payments or refunded to Tenant. Tenant shall also be responsible for all of its janitorial and trash removal and all other expenses related directly to the operation of Tenant's business. The books and records maintained reflecting common area maintenance costs shall be made available for Tenant's inspection at reasonable times.
Common Area Costs. During the Lease Term, Tenant shall pay for all expenses incurred in connection with the maintenance of the Leased Premises and the Common Areas serving the Leased Premises. If, at any time, Lessor, in Lessor's reasonable judgment, determines that Tenant is failing to maintain the Leased Premises or Common Areas appertaining thereto, Lessor may, after thirty (30) days written notice to Tenant of its intentions and Tenant's failure to act in response to such notice, provide such maintenance itself, in which case Tenant shall promptly reimburse Lessor for the costs thereof, together with interest thereon at the rate of One and one-half (1.5%) per cent per month, upon presentation of Lessor's invoices.
