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Common Area

James Sullivan
Ziegler Cooper
June 3, 2019

Retail restaurant area on floor One. There is a Mechanical room directly above that only services the restaurant below. The Mechanical room houses exhaust scrubbers for the restaurant only. Is this considered common area.

David Fingret
Extreme Measures Inc.
June 3, 2019

We would consider it part of the restaurant's Gross Leasable Area.

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