Common Area “Common Area” means all areas and improvements within the Project, as it now exists or as it exists in the future, not held or designated for the exclusive use or occupancy of Landlord, Tenant, or other tenants, including, without limitation, a freight or freight/passenger elevator. Tenant may use the Common Area on a nonexclusive basis during this Lease, including, without limitation, a freight or freight/passenger elevator and Landlord agrees that it shall take all steps necessary to add the existing freight/passenger elevator that is exclusive to a tenant other than Tenant to the Common Area and to provide Tenant with non-exclusive use thereof. Subject to the foregoing, Landlord reserves all rights in connection with the Common Area and the rest of the Project, including, without limitation, the right to change, relocate, add to, improve or demolish portions of the land and/or improvements and the layout thereof and promulgate rules and regulations with respect thereto, limit the use of any portion of the Common Area by Tenant or its Affiliates, and place certain portions of the Common Area off limits to Tenant and its Affiliates, including, without limitation, janitorial, maintenance, equipment and storage areas, and entrances, loading docks, corridors, elevators and parking areas (specifically subject to Section 15.2 and the last sentence of this Section 15.1). Landlord reserves the space above hung ceilings, below the floor and within the walls of the Premises, and the right to install, relocate. remove, use, maintain, repair and replace Systems and Equipment within or serving the Premises or other parts of the Building or the Project, and in such cases Landlord will use commercially reasonable efforts avoid disturbing or interfering with the conduct of Tenant’s business more than is reasonably necessary under the circumstances. Except during emergencies or by reason of force majeure or necessary maintenance, repair or construction, Landlord’s exercise of the rights in this Article will not ever prevent Tenant from having access to or the use of the Premises or a loading dock or the base building HVAC provided by Landlord, all or which are granted 24 hours per day, seven days per week, but such exercise will not under any circumstances require Landlord to compensate Tenant in any way, result in any Labilities to Landlord, entitle Tenant to xxxxx rent, or reduce Tenant’s Lease obligations.
Common Areas Tenant shall have the non-exclusive right to use in common with other tenants in the Project, and subject to the Rules and Regulations referred to in Article 5 of this Lease, those portions of the Project which are provided, from time to time, for use in common by Landlord, Tenant and any other tenants of the Project (such areas, together with such other portions of the Project designated by Landlord, in its discretion, including certain areas designated for the exclusive use of certain tenants, or to be shared by Landlord and certain tenants, are collectively referred to herein as the “Common Areas”). The Common Areas shall consist of the “Project Common Areas” and the “Building Common Areas.” The term “Project Common Areas,” as used in this Lease, shall mean the portion of the Project designated as such by Landlord or areas within the Project that the occupants of the Building are permitted to utilize pursuant to a recorded declaration and which areas shall be maintained in accordance with the declaration. The term “Building Common Areas,” as used in this Lease, shall mean the portions of the Common Areas located within the Building reasonably designated as such by Landlord. The manner in which the Common Areas are maintained and operated shall be at the reasonable discretion of Landlord and the use thereof shall be subject to the Rules and Regulations as Landlord may make from time to time. Landlord reserves the right to close temporarily, make alterations or additions to, or change the location of elements of the Project and the Common Areas, provided that, in connection therewith, Landlord shall perform such closures, alterations, additions or changes in a commercially reasonable manner and, in connection therewith, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to minimize any material interference with Tenant’s use of and access to the Premises.
