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Forum Categories BOMA 1996 - Office Buildings Question

Storage Space

Todd Larsen: Colliers International (Canada); February 15, 2014

I have an office building where there is some storage area in the garden level or partial basement. How is this storage area accounted for?

Adam Fingret: Extreme Measures Inc.; March 14, 2014

Under BOMA 1996, this storage area may be a treated as a tenant Usable Area, or as a Floor or Building Common Area. You will probably have to think about the storage area's primary usage in order to classify it correctly.