LEASE between FIVE HUNDRED BOYLSTON WEST VENTURE, as LANDLORD and NEWSTAR FINANCIAL, INC., asTENANT Dated as of October 31, 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Exhibit 10(a)(1)
LEASE
between
FIVE HUNDRED BOYLSTON WEST VENTURE, as LANDLORD
and
NEWSTAR FINANCIAL, INC., as TENANT
Dated as of October 31, 2012
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1. LEASE | 4 | |||||
1.01 | Lease | 4 | ||||
1.02 | Appurtenant Rights | 4 | ||||
ARTICLE 2. TERM; RENT | 4 | |||||
2.01 | Term | 4 | ||||
2.02 | Use | 6 | ||||
2.03 | Rent | 6 | ||||
2.04 | Operating Cost | 7 | ||||
2.05 | Impositions | 9 | ||||
2.06 | Computation Of Operating Cost and Impositions Adjustment | 10 | ||||
2.07 | Adjustment For Variation Between Estimated And Actual | 10 | ||||
ARTICLE 3. LANDLORDS COVENANTS | 11 | |||||
3.01 | Basic Services | 11 | ||||
3.02 | Extra Services | 13 | ||||
3.03 | Window Covering | 14 | ||||
3.04 | Graphics And Signage | 14 | ||||
3.05 | Initial Tenant Improvements | 15 | ||||
3.06 | Repair Obligation | 15 | ||||
3.07 | Quiet Enjoyment | 15 | ||||
ARTICLE 4. TENANTS COVENANTS | 16 | |||||
4.01 | Obligations Of Tenant To Furnish Floor Plans | 16 | ||||
4.02 | Construction Of Tenant Improvements | 16 | ||||
4.03 | Taxes On Personal Property | 16 | ||||
4.04 | Repairs By Tenant | 16 | ||||
4.05 | Waste | 17 | ||||
4.06 | Assignment Or Sublease | 17 | ||||
4.07 | Alterations And Surrender | 20 | ||||
4.08 | Compliance With Laws And Insurance Standards | 22 | ||||
4.09 | Entry For Repairs And Leasing | 22 | ||||
4.10 | No Nuisance | 23 | ||||
4.11 | Subordination | 23 | ||||
4.12 | Estoppel Certificate | 24 | ||||
4.13 | Tenants Remedies | 24 | ||||
4.14 | Rules and Regulations | 24 | ||||
4.15 | Personal Property At Tenants Risk | 25 | ||||
4.16 | Payment Of Landlords Expenses | 25 | ||||
4.17 | Letter of Credit/Security Deposit | 25 | ||||
4.18 | Tenants Financial Condition | 25 | ||||
4.19 | Energy Conservation | 26 | ||||
4.20 | Discharge of Mechanics and Materialmans Liens | 26 |
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ARTICLE 5. CASUALTY, EMINENT DOMAIN | 26 | |||||
5.01 | Landlords Casualty Insurance | 26 | ||||
5.02 | Landlords Liability Insurance | 27 | ||||
5.03 | Tenants Insurance | 27 | ||||
5.04 | Indemnity And Exoneration | 29 | ||||
5.05 | Waiver Of Subrogation Rights | 29 | ||||
5.06 | Condemnation And Loss or Damage | 30 | ||||
5.07 | Damage Due to Fire And Casualty | 30 | ||||
ARTICLE 6. DEFAULT | 32 | |||||
6.01 | Events of Default | 32 | ||||
6.02 | Remedies Upon Default | 33 | ||||
6.03 | Damages Upon Termination | 33 | ||||
6.04 | Computation Of Rent For Purposes Of Default | 35 | ||||
6.05 | Liquidated Damages | 35 | ||||
6.06 | Rights of Landlord In Bankruptcy | 35 | ||||
6.07 | Late Charge | 36 | ||||
ARTICLE 7. APPRAISAL | 36 | |||||
7.01 | Appraisal Of Fair Market Rent | 36 | ||||
ARTICLE 8. MISCELLANEOUS | 37 | |||||
8.01 | No Waiver | 37 | ||||
8.02 | Holding Over | 38 | ||||
8.03 | Amendments And Modifications | 38 | ||||
8.04 | Transfers By Landlord | 38 | ||||
8.05 | Severability | 38 | ||||
8.06 | Notices | 38 | ||||
8.07 | No Joint Venture | 39 | ||||
8.08 | Successors And Assigns | 39 | ||||
8.09 | Applicable Law | 39 | ||||
8.10 | Time Of The Essence | 39 | ||||
8.11 | Submission Not An Option | 39 | ||||
8.12 | Brokerage | 39 | ||||
8.13 | Waiver Of Jury Trial | 39 | ||||
8.14 | All Agreements Contained | 39 |
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8.15 | Cumulative Remedies | 39 | ||||
8.16 | Failure To Enforce; Accord and Satisfaction | 40 | ||||
8.17 | Substitution | 40 | ||||
8.18 | Notice Of Lease | 41 | ||||
8.19 | Consents | 41 | ||||
8.20 | Intentionally omitted | 41 | ||||
8.21 | Tenants Authorized Representative | 41 | ||||
8.22 | Assignment of Rents | 41 | ||||
8.23 | Tenant Confirmations | 42 | ||||
ARTICLE 9. OPTIONS | 42 | |||||
9.01 | Extension Option | 42 | ||||
9.02 | Right of First Offer | 43 | ||||
ARTICLE 10. DEFINITIONS | 44 | |||||
10.01 | Definitions | 44 | ||||
EXHIBIT A Floor Plan | 50 | |||||
EXHIBIT A-1 Description of Land | 51 | |||||
EXHIBIT B INITIAL IMPROVEMENT OF THE LEASED PREMISES | 53 | |||||
EXHIBIT B-1 MINIMUM INFORMATION REQUIRED | 55 | |||||
EXHIBIT B-2 BUILDING STANDARD IMPROVEMENTS | 56 | |||||
EXHIBIT C Building Rules and Regulations for Five Hundred Boylston (the Building) | 58 | |||||
EXHIBIT D Letter of Credit Requirements | 61 | |||||
EXHIBIT E Cleaning Specifications | 63 | |||||
PARKING ADDENDUM | 65 |
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FIVE HUNDRED BOYLSTON
Basic Lease Information
This Basic Lease Information Sheet is made a part of, and incorporated in, that certain lease dated as set forth below by and between Five Hundred Boylston West Venture (as Landlord) and NewStar Financial, Inc. (as Tenant).
Lease Effective Date: | October 31, 2012 | |
Tenant: | NewStar Financial, Inc., | |
a Delaware corporation | ||
Tenants Address: | 500 Boylston Street, Suite 1250 | |
Boston, MA 02116 | ||
Attn: R. Scott Poirier | ||
Landlord: | Five Hundred Boylston West Venture, | |
a Massachusetts joint venture | ||
Landlords Address: | c/o Equity Office | |
125 Summer Street | ||
Boston, MA 02110 | ||
Attn: Lease Administration | ||
with a copy to: | ||
c/o Hines Interests Limited Partnership | ||
222 Berkeley Street | ||
Boston, MA 02116 | ||
Attn: Property Manager | ||
Leased Premises: | A portion of Floor 12 of the Building located at 500 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, as depicted in Exhibit A and comprising (a) the Existing Subleased Premises (as defined in Section 2.01(a)) and (b) the Additional Premises (as defined in Section 2.01(b)), subject to expansion pursuant to Section 2.01(c). | |
Net Rentable Area of Leased Premises: | 18,628 square feet, comprised of 16,696 square feet in the Existing Subleased Premises and 1,932 square feet in the Additional Premises; provided that, if Tenant exercises the Initial Expansion Right under Section 2.01(c), then the Net Rentable Area of Leased Premises shall be 23,353 square feet, comprised of 16,696 square feet in the Existing Subleased Premises, 1,932 square feet in the Additional Premises, and 4,725 square feet in the Expansion Premises (as defined in Section 2.01(c)). |
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Net Rentable Area of the Building as of the Lease Effective Date: | ||||
Office Section: | 677,758 square feet | |||
Retail Section: | 76,141 square feet | |||
Total: | 753,899 square feet | |||
Term Commencement Date (for the Existing Subleased Premises): | March 1, 2013 | |||
Delivery Dates (for the Additional Premises and, if applicable, the Expansion Premises): | See Section 2.01(b) and Section 2.01(c) | |||
Rent Commencement Date: | August 1, 2013, provided that (i) the Rent Commencement Date in respect of the Additional Premises shall be subject to delay on account of a delayed delivery of such space as set forth in Section 2.01(b), and (ii) if Tenant exercises the Initial Expansion Right under Section 2.01(c), the Rent Commencement Date in respect of the Expansion Premises shall be subject to delay on account of a delayed delivery of such space as set forth in Section 2.01(c)). | |||
Term Expiration Date | ||||
(for the entire Leased Premises): | The last day of the seventh (7th) Lease Year (as defined below), subject to extension under Section 9.01 | |||
Net Rent: | Lease Year 1: | $42.50 per square foot of Net Rentable Area of Leased Premises per annum | ||
Lease Year 2: | $42.50 per square foot of Net Rentable Area of Leased Premises per annum | |||
Lease Year 3: | $42.50 per square foot of Net Rentable Area of Leased Premises per annum | |||
Lease Year 4: | $47.50 per square foot of Net Rentable Area of Leased Premises per annum | |||
Lease Year 5: | $47.50 per square foot of Net Rentable Area of Leased Premises per annum | |||
Lease Year 6: | $47.50 per square foot of Net Rentable Area of Leased Premises per annum | |||
Lease Year 7: | $47.50 per square foot of Net Rentable Area of Leased Premises per annum |
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The term Lease Year shall mean each twelve-(12)-month period beginning on the Rent Commencement Date for the Existing Subleased Premises and each anniversary thereof. | ||
Tenants Plan Delivery Date: | Not applicable | |
Tenant Work Allowance: | The sum of: | |
(a) $15.00 per square foot of Net Rentable Area of the Existing Subleased Premises (i.e., $250,440.00), plus | ||
(b) $60.00 per square foot of Net Rentable Area of the Additional Premises (i.e., $115,920.00), plus | ||
(c) if Tenant exercises the Initial Expansion Right under Section 2.01(c), $60.00 per square foot of Net Rentable Area of the Expansion Premises (i.e., $283,500.00). | ||
Tenants Proportionate Share: | 2.893% for the Existing Subleased Premises and the Additional Premises in the aggregate (plus, if Tenant leases the Expansion Premises, 0.734% for the Expansion Premises), subject to Sections 2.03 and 10.01. | |
Tenants Authorized Representative: | R. Scott Poirier | |
Letter of Credit/Security Deposit: | $97,000.00 (plus, if Tenant exercises the Initial Expansion Right under Section 2.01(c), $24,500.00), subject to Section 4.17. and Exhibit D | |
Guarantor: | None | |
Brokers: | CBRE New England, Inc. (Tenants Broker) Richards Barry Joyce & Partners (Landlords Broker) | |
Parking Spaces: | One (1) monthly parking space in the Project garage for each three thousand (3,000) square feet of Net Rentable Area of Leased Premises, rounded to the nearest integer, as more particularly set forth in the Parking Addendum to the Lease attached hereto. Additional spaces may be available as set forth in the Parking Addendum. |
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THIS LEASE is entered into between Landlord and Tenant as of the Effective Date set forth above.
ARTICLE 1. LEASE
1.01 | Lease. Landlord leases to Tenant and Tenant leases from Landlord the Leased Premises (excluding all Common Areas and all pipes, ducts, conduits, wires, and appurtenant fixtures located therein serving other parts of the Building) upon all of the terms, covenants and conditions set forth herein. |
1.02 | Appurtenant Rights. Tenant shall have, as appurtenant to the Leased Premises, rights to use in common (subject to rules and regulations made by Landlord pursuant to Section 4.14): (a) the common lobbies, corridors, stairways, elevators of the Building serving the Leased Premises in common with others; (b) common walkways providing access to the Building; (c) if the Leased Premises include less than the entire rentable area of any floor, the common toilets, corridors and elevator lobby on such floor and serving the Leased Premises; and (d) all other General Common Areas from time to time intended for general use by Tenant, other Building tenants, and Landlord. |
ARTICLE 2. TERM; RENT
2.01 | Term. The Term of the Lease, in respect of the Existing Subleased Premises (as defined below), shall commence at 12:01 A.M. on the Term Commencement Date set forth in the Basic Lease Information Sheet. The Term of the Lease, in respect of the Additional Premises and, if applicable, the Expansion Premises (each, as defined below), shall commence at 12:01 A.M. on the respective Delivery Date for each such space as set forth below. The initial Term for the entire Leased Premises shall end at 11:59 P.M. on the Term Expiration Date set forth in the Basic Lease Information Sheet, unless sooner terminated in accordance with the provisions hereof, or extended as set forth herein. Tenants obligations under this Lease shall commence upon the Term Commencement Date (for the Existing Subleased Premises) and upon the respective Delivery Date (for the Additional Premises and, if applicable, the Expansion Premises), except as expressly otherwise provided in this Lease (including, without limitation, as to the Rent Commencement Date(s) for the respective portions of the Leased Premises as more particularly set forth in this Lease). |
(a) Existing Subleased Premises. The Existing Subleased Premises shall mean the portion of the Leased Premises outlined as the Existing Subleased Premises on Exhibit A attached hereto. Tenant, as subtenant, currently occupies the Existing Subleased Premises pursuant to a sublease from Massachusetts Financial Services Company (MFS). Landlord shall be deemed to have delivered to Tenant, and Tenant shall be deemed to have accepted, the Existing Subleased Premises in their then as is condition on the Term Commencement Date for the Existing Subleased Premises set forth in the Basic Lease Information Sheet.
(b) Additional Premises. The Additional Premises shall mean a portion of the balance of Floor 12 of the Building that is outlined as the Additional Premises on Exhibit A attached hereto. The Additional Premises, together with the Existing Subleased Premises, are currently leased by MFS under a lease currently scheduled to expire on February 28, 2013, without any right of extension. Landlord shall not extend the term of the MFSs lease in respect of any
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portion of the Leased Premises beyond the scheduled expiration date set forth above. MFS has advised Landlord that it may vacate the Additional Premises prior to such scheduled expiration date, in which event the Additional Premises may become available for space preparation work prior to such date.
As used herein, the Scheduled Delivery Period for the Additional Premises shall mean the period commencing on December 1, 2012 and ending on April 1, 2013. The Delivery Date for the Additional Premises shall mean the date on which Landlord delivers the Additional Premises to Tenant, free and clear of all occupants and after substantial completion of the work that is required under Section 3.05 below to be performed by Landlord prior to the Delivery Date for the Additional Premises. Landlord shall use reasonable efforts to so deliver the Additional Premises to Tenant as early as is practicable during the Scheduled Delivery Period (after MFS vacates and surrenders such space and Landlord has substantially completed the work that it is required to perform prior to the Delivery Date under Section 3.05 below), provided that (i) the Additional Premises shall not be delivered to Tenant prior to the Scheduled Delivery Period, unless Tenant elects to accept such early delivery of the Additional Premises, and (ii) any delay in such delivery beyond the Scheduled Delivery Period shall not give rise to any claim, damage, or liability of Landlord, except that the Rent Commencement Date (solely in respect of the Additional Premises) shall be delayed by one day for each day (if any) that the Delivery Date for the Additional Premises is delayed after the last day of the Scheduled Delivery Period (it being agreed, however, that such delay in the Rent Commencement Date for the Additional Premises shall not derogate from Landlords ongoing obligation to continue to use reasonable efforts to deliver the Additional Premises as soon as possible after the end of the Scheduled Delivery Period).
(c) Initial Expansion Right for Balance of Floor 12. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Tenant so elects by written notice given to Landlord on or before February 28, 2013, the Leased Premises shall further include the Expansion Premises (the Initial Expansion Right), subject to the terms set forth below. The Expansion Premises shall mean the entire balance of Floor 12 of the Building (i.e., the portion of the floor exclusive of the Existing Subleased Premises and the Additional Premises, and subject to the exclusions set forth in Section 1.01) as shown on Exhibit A attached hereto. Tenants notice exercising the Initial Expansion Right must be unconditional and irrevocable in order to be effective. Failure to timely deliver Tenants notice exercising the Initial Expansion Right shall constitute Tenants waiver of the Initial Expansion Right. If Tenant timely exercises the Initial Expansion Right in accordance with this Section 2.01(c), (i) the definition of the Leased Premises in the Basic Lease Information Sheet shall mean the entire Floor 12 of the Building (subject to the exclusions in Section 1.01), (ii) the Leased Premises shall be deemed to include the balance of Floor 12 for all purposes hereunder (subject to the exclusions in Section 1.01), and (iii) the Net Rentable Area of Leased Premises, the Tenant Work Allowance, the Tenants Proportionate Share, and the Letter of Credit (or Security Deposit) shall each be increased as set forth in the Basic Lease Information Sheet. Tenants lease of the Expansion Premises under this Section 2.01(c) shall be on all of the terms and conditions of this Lease that are applicable to the initial Additional Premises, except as otherwise expressly set forth in this Lease. If Tenant timely exercises the Initial Expansion Right in accordance with this Section 2.01(c), the provisions of this Section 2.01(c) shall be self-operative, without the need for the parties to execute any further instrument, but upon Landlords request the parties shall execute a confirmatory instrument acknowledging the exercise of the Initial Expansion Right and the terms applicable thereto under the provisions of this Lease.
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As used herein, the Scheduled Delivery Period for the Expansion Premises shall mean the period commencing on December 1, 2012 and ending on April 1, 2013. The Delivery Date for the Expansion Premises shall mean the date on which Landlord delivers the Expansion Premises to Tenant, free and clear of all occupants. Landlord shall use reasonable efforts to so deliver the Expansion Premises to Tenant as early as is practicable during the Scheduled Delivery Period (after MFS vacates and surrenders such space), provided that (i) the Expansion Premises shall not be delivered to Tenant prior to the Scheduled Delivery Period, unless Tenant elects to accept such early delivery of the Expansion Premises, and (ii) any delay in such delivery beyond the Scheduled Delivery Period shall not give rise to any claim, damage, or liability of Landlord, except that the Rent Commencement Date (solely in respect of the Expansion Premises) shall be delayed by one day for each day (if any) that the Delivery Date for the Expansion Premises is delayed after the last day of the Scheduled Delivery Period (it being agreed, however, that such delay in the Rent Commencement Date for the Expansion Premises shall not derogate from Landlords ongoing obligation to continue to use reasonable efforts to deliver the Expansion Premises as soon as possible after the end of the Scheduled Delivery Period).
2.02 | Use. Tenant shall not use the Leased Premises for any use or purpose other than the Permitted Use (as defined in Section 10.01), except as permitted by Landlord pursuant to Landlords written consent. |
2.03 | Rent. All obligations of Tenant to make payments to Landlord under this Lease shall constitute Rent. Tenant shall pay the Rent at the times and in the manner hereinafter set forth. |
Subject to the rent abatement set forth in the immediately following paragraph, Tenant shall pay the Gross Rent, consisting of Net Rent and Tenants Proportionate Share of Estimated Operating Cost and Estimated Impositions (each as defined in Section 10.01), in twelve (12) equal installments on the first day of each calendar month during each year of the Term and any extensions thereof. (The calculation of Tenants Proportionate Share under Section 10.01 shall be made using the same measurement methodology for the Net Rentable Area of the entire Office Section as was used for determining the Net Rentable Area of Leased Premises set forth in the Basic Lease Information Sheet.) Such payments shall be made in lawful money of the United States, in advance without demand, and (except as expressly provided herein) without any reduction, abatement, counterclaim or set off, at the address for Landlord specified on the Basic Lease Information sheet or at such other address as may be designated by Landlord from time to time by written notice provided in accordance with Section 8.06 below.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) Gross Rent in respect of the Existing Subleased Premises shall be abated for the period commencing on the Term Commencement Date through the date immediately preceding the Rent Commencement Date set forth in the Basic Lease Information Section, (ii) Gross Rent in respect of the Additional Premises shall be abated for the period commencing on the Delivery Date for the Additional Premises through the date immediately preceding the Rent Commencement Date set forth in the Basic Lease Information (subject to the last sentence of Section 2.01(b) in respect of a delayed delivery of the Additional Premises), and (iii) Gross Rent in respect of the Expansion Premises shall be
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abated for the period commencing on the Delivery Date for the Expansion Premises through the date immediately preceding the Rent Commencement Date set forth in the Basic Lease Information (subject to the last sentence of Section 2.01(c) in respect of a delayed delivery of the Expansion Premises); provided, however, that, in the event of an Event of Default, Tenant shall pay to Landlord a fractional portion of the amount of such abated Gross Rent, in the ratio that (x) the number of full or partial months from the date of default through the originally scheduled Term Expiration Date (without regard to extension under Section 9.01 and not to exceed eighty four months) bears to (y) eighty four (84) months. Payment of Additional Rent (as defined in Section 10.01), if any, shall commence on the Term Commencement Date for the Subleased Premises and on the applicable Delivery Date for the Additional Premises and (if applicable) the Expansion Premises. If such rent abatement period expires on a day that is not the last day of a calendar month, the Gross Rent due for the portion of such month following such expiration of the rent abatement period shall be prorated on a per diem basis and paid on the first day of such month. If the Term terminates on other than the last day of a calendar month, then Gross Rent provided for such partial month shall be equitably prorated on such date of termination.
2.04 | Operating Cost. |
(a) | Subject to the exclusions set forth in Section 2.04(c) below, Operating Cost shall mean all expenses and costs of every kind and nature which Landlord shall pay or become obligated to pay because of or in connection with the management, maintenance, preservation or operation of the Building (determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied) including, but not limited to the following: |
(1) | Expenses of the operation, maintenance and security of the Building, including compensation in the form of wages, salaries, and other compensation and benefits (including payroll taxes, federal, state and local unemployment taxes and social security taxes, insurance, welfare and retirement benefits, and related expenses and benefits of all on-site and off-site employees, reasonably pro-rated to reflect services provided for the Building and other building(s)). |
(2) | Cost for Landlords office and management office operation for the Building, including the actual cost (or, if not paid, the imputed fair market rent) of any space occupied by entities providing management or building services for the Building, which shall be reasonably allocated between the Building and any other buildings served by the personnel occupying such space; |
(3) | All tools, supplies, materials and equipment used in the operation and maintenance of the Building, including rental fees for the same, if such items are not purchased and amortized pursuant to (10) below; |
(4) | Utilities, including electricity, water, sewer, gas, communication, heating, lighting, air conditioning and ventilating, for the entire Building (subject to the exclusions set forth below for separately reimbursable tenant charges); |
(5) | All maintenance, janitorial and service agreements and costs for the Building, including, without limitation, alarm service, landscaping, |
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window cleaning, escalator and elevator maintenance, rubbish and snow removal, pest control, equipment maintenance or servicing or maintenance or cleaning for sidewalks, Building exterior, roof and service areas; |
(6) | A management fee in connection with the operation of the Building; provided, however, that Tenants share of such Operating Cost shall be separately calculated and equal three percent (3%) of all Rent under this Lease, excluding such fee, and that such share shall be in lieu of Tenants Proportionate Share of the management fee for the entire Building; |
(7) | Legal and accounting services for the Building, including the costs of audits by certified public accountants, but excluding legal costs incurred in proceedings against any specific tenant or in connection with the development, financing, and leasing of the Building; |
(8) | All insurance premiums and costs applicable to the Building and Landlords personal property used in connection therewith, including but not limited to, the premiums and cost of fire, casualty and liability coverage and rental abatement and business interruption insurance and unreimbursable costs incurred by Landlord that are subject to an insurance deductible; |
(9) | Repairs, replacements and general maintenance (except for repairs covered by insurance or reimbursable by Tenant or other third parties, and alterations attributable solely to tenants of the Building other than Tenant); |
(10) | Amortization (together with reasonable actual or imputed financing charges) of capital improvements made to the Building that (i) are reasonably designed to improve the quality or operating efficiency of the Building (by an amount reasonably projected by Landlord to equal or exceed the amortized costs of such improvements with respect to capital expenditures for operating efficiency), (ii) may be required by governmental authorities (other than a failure of the Building to comply with any law in effect and interpreted to apply to the Property as of the date hereof) or any insurer of the Building, or (iii) constitute equipment of a capital nature contemplated in (3) above (such as, for example, snow blowers, vacuums and sweepers), which in Landlords reasonable judgment, is ultimately less costly to purchase than to rent. |
(b) | Notwithstanding any other provision herein to the contrary, in the event that the Building is not fully occupied during any year of the Term, an adjustment shall be made in computing Operating Cost for such year so that the components of Operating Cost that vary with occupancy shall be extrapolated to equal the amount of such variable Operating Cost that would have been incurred if the Building had been fully occupied during such year; provided, however, that in no event shall Landlord collect in total, from Tenant and all other tenants of the Building, an amount greater than one hundred percent (100%) of any item of the actual Operating Cost during any year of the Term. For a simplified illustration (with rounded hypothetical numbers), if the costs of providing standard office tenant cleaning services had been $500,000 for 500,000 rentable square feet of occupied office tenant space during an entire |
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year, the Office Section of the Building had contained 700,000 rentable square feet, and the incremental cost of providing such cleaning services for the balance of the Office Section, if occupied, would have been at the same per square foot rate, then for purposes of computing Operating Cost for such year the amount of such variable office tenant cleaning services included in Operating Cost would be extrapolated to $700,000. |
(c) | Notwithstanding the foregoing, Operating Cost shall not include (i) costs associated with the operation of the parking garage forming part of the Building (including the elevators serving the garage), or with the development, financing, or leasing (including the procurement of tenants) of the Building (including, without limitation, attorneys fees in connection therewith); (ii) costs for tenant electricity (of the type specified in Section 3.01(b)) or for extra services (of the type specified in Section 3.02) that are separately billable to and payable by other tenants leasing space in the Office Section of the Building, (iii) those costs and expenses which are properly attributable to or separately payable by the tenants in the Commercial Section of the Building; (iv) that portion of the costs and expenses relating to the loading dock facilities and the General Common Areas which is paid by the tenants in the Commercial Section of the Building; (v) compensation paid to any executives or principals of Landlord above the grade of senior property manager, except that such costs shall be included in Operating Cost to the extent such person actually performs services that are attributable to actual Building operations or that would have been performed by an outside consultant and included in Operating Cost hereunder; (vi) Impositions and other taxes excluded from Impositions as set forth in Section 2.05 below; (vii) depreciation, and any rent paid on any ground or underlying lease of the Land; (viii) debt service payments, other costs of financing or refinancing of any Mortgage, or costs incurred in connection with any other financing, sale, or syndication of the Building or any interest therein; (ix) advertising costs, brokerage commissions, attorneys fees, and other expenses incurred in negotiating leases (or assignments, subleases or amendments thereof) with tenants of the Building or preparing such tenants spaces for occupancy; (x) costs of capital items, except as expressly included above in clause (a)(10) in Operating Cost; (xi) costs for which Landlord is reimbursed under insurance policies or otherwise by third parties (including other tenants for separately reimbursable charges, such as overtime HVAC or special services); (xii) the incremental additional costs of any work or service performed for any other tenant to a materially greater extent or in a materially more favorable manner than that furnished to Tenant; (xiii) damages, penalties, fines, or interest which Landlord is obligated to pay by reason of failure by Landlord to comply with applicable law or its lease obligations; (xiv) charitable, civic and political contributions or similar donations, and (xv) costs of services provided to other tenants and not to Tenant. |
2.05 | Impositions. Impositions shall mean all real estate or personal property taxes, possessory interest taxes, or similar charges, business or license taxes or fees, service payments in lieu of such taxes or fees, annual or periodic license or use fees, excises, assessments, levies, fees or charges, general and special, ordinary and extraordinary, unforeseen as well as foreseen, of any kind (including fees in-lieu of any such tax or assessment) which are assessed, levied, charged, or imposed by any public authority upon the Land, the Building, its operations or the Rent (or any portion or component thereof) including, in the year paid, all fees and costs incurred by Landlord in seeking to obtain an abatement or reduction of, or a |
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limit on any increase, in any taxes, regardless of whether any abatement, reduction or limitation is obtained, but excluding (i) inheritance, estate, franchise, capital stock, or gift taxes imposed upon or assessed against the Building, or any part thereof or interest therein, (ii) taxes computed upon the basis of the net income derived from the Building by Landlord or the owner of any interest therein, (iii) that portion of the items enumerated in this Section which is properly attributable to or separately payable by the tenants in the Commercial Section of the Building; (iv) any of the enumerated items payable with respect to the parking garage forming part of the Building (including the elevators serving such garage) or (v) any penalties, fines, or interest which Landlord is obligated to pay by reason of failure by Landlord to timely pay Impositions (except to the extent attributable to Tenants failure to comply with its obligations hereunder). Landlord shall refund or credit to Tenant its Proportionate Share of any abatement actually received by Landlord (net of fees and costs not previously included in Tenants share of Impositions) for Impositions for any year included in the Term for which Tenant previously paid such Impositions, provided that Tenant is not in default under the Lease continuing beyond any applicable notice and cure period. |
2.06 | Computation Of Operating Cost and Impositions Adjustment. Landlord shall from time to time give Tenant written notice of the applicable Estimated Operating Cost and Estimated Impositions and any adjustments thereto. Landlord shall, after the end of each calendar year of the Term, give written notice to Tenant containing or accompanied by a statement of the Operating Cost and Impositions during such calendar year, and also accompanied by a computation of the Operating Cost Adjustment and the Impositions Adjustment, if any. Landlord shall use reasonable efforts to provide such statement within one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of each calendar year for which an adjustment is due, but Landlords failure to give such statement within such period shall not release either party from the obligation to make the adjustment provided for in Section 2.07. Such statement shall be deemed accepted if not disputed, within six months after Tenants receipt thereof, by written notice to Landlord stating the items that Tenant disputes. If Tenant so requests and is not in default under the Lease continuing beyond any applicable notice and cure period, Landlord shall (a) provide a copy of its audited statement for the calendar year just ended (or, if an audited statement is not available, the statement shall be certified by an officer or representative of Landlord) and (b) provide or permit Tenant (or its designated certified public accountant from a reputable national or regional accounting firm reasonably acceptable to Landlord) to review reasonable backup information concerning specific line items in such annual statement that Tenant in good faith disputes, which request may be made within one hundred twenty days after receipt of the year-end statement and not more than once annually; provided that as a condition thereof Landlord may require Tenant (and, if applicable, its designated accountant) to enter into a confidentiality agreement with respect to any such information. Tenant agrees that it shall not engage any person or entity on a contingency fee basis in connection with any such review. If Tenant engages a designated accountant as aforesaid, Tenant shall provide Landlord with a copy of its report within sixty (60) days after the commencement of its review hereunder, which shall identify all items that Tenant in good faith disputes. Tenant shall be deemed to have accepted the year-end statement with respect to all items that are not timely identified in such report as being in dispute. |
2.07 | Adjustment For Variation Between Estimated And Actual. If the Operating Cost and/or the Impositions for any calendar year exceed the Estimated Operating Cost and/or the Estimated Impositions, Tenant shall pay to Landlord Tenants |
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Proportionate Share of such excess within thirty (30) days after presentation of Landlords statement pursuant to Section 2.06. If the Operating Cost and/or Impositions for any calendar year is less than the Estimated Operating Cost and/or the Estimated Impositions, then Landlord shall pay to Tenant Tenants Proportionate Share of such difference within thirty (30) days after the Operating Cost Adjustment and/or the Impositions Adjustment is finally determined. Should the Term commence or terminate at any time other than the first day of a calendar year, Tenants Proportionate Share of the Operating Cost Adjustment and/or Impositions Adjustment shall be prorated for the exact number of calendar days for which Tenant is obligated to pay Gross Rent, and in the case of the expiration or any early termination of this Lease, the provisions of this Section 2.07 shall survive such expiration or termination. |
ARTICLE 3. LANDLORDS COVENANTS
3.01 | Basic Services. |
(a) | Landlord shall furnish or cause to be furnished the following Basic Services to Tenant during Business Hours (unless otherwise stated herein) during Tenants occupancy of the Leased Premises: |
(i) | Hot and cold water used at all times by the building standard cooling, drinking and sanitation systems, and for maintenance and janitorial services. |
(ii) | Central heat and air conditioning in season, at such temperatures and in such amounts as are from time to time furnished to tenants in Comparable Buildings in Downtown Boston, or as may be permitted or controlled by applicable laws, ordinances, rules and regulations. |
(iii) | Maintenance, repairs, structural and exterior maintenance (including exterior glass and glazing) as set forth in Section 3.06, painting and electric lighting service for all Common Areas, Building Common Areas and General Common Areas in the manner and to the extent customarily provided by landlords in Comparable Buildings in Downtown Boston. |
(iv) | Janitorial service after Business Hours on Business Days in accordance with the cleaning specifications attached as Exhibit E (or such other specifications as Landlord may from time to time adopt that are consistent with prevailing standards for comparable buildings in downtown Boston). |
(v) | Electricity at all times for (1) building standard light fixtures, (2) desktop personal computers, typewriters, telephones, fax machines, printers, copying machines, and other equipment of similar low electrical consumption in the Leased Premises, and (3) building standard air handling units and related HVAC equipment for the floor on which the Leased Premises are located (it being agreed that Tenants consumption for the items under clause (2) shall not exceed two (2) watts per square foot of Usable Area per month at 120 volts). |
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(vi) | Initial lamps, bulbs, starters and ballasts for building standard fixtures used within the Leased Premises. |
(vii) | A system of access control for the Building during hours when the Building is not generally open to the public and during such other hours as Landlord may from time to time designate. During such hours, Landlord may employ a system of monitoring and limiting access to the office floors in the Building based on reasonable systems of identification. Landlord reserves the right from time to time to modify components of such system, to change the number of lobby attendants, or to institute, modify, supplement, or discontinue any access control procedures or equipment for the Building or the Project, whether during or after business hours. Landlord does not warrant or guarantee the effectiveness of any such system or procedures. Tenant expressly disclaims any such warranty, guarantee, or undertaking by Landlord with respect thereto and acknowledges that access control procedures from time to time in effect are solely for the convenience of tenants generally and are not intended to secure the Leased Premises or guarantee the physical safety of tenants employees or invitees in or about the Leased Premises or the Project. Tenant shall be responsible for securing the Leased Premises, subject to Landlords approval under Section 4.07 of Tenants installation of access card readers or other security equipment for the Leased Premises. Subject to the foregoing, access to the Leased Premises shall be available on a 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week basis, subject to temporary interruptions for annual power testing (as to which Landlord shall use reasonable efforts to advise building tenants in advance in a manner consistent with the operation of Comparable Buildings in Downtown Boston) and emergencies and the terms and conditions of the Lease. |
(viii) | Public elevator service serving the floors on which the Leased Premises are situated, including a freight elevator. (At least one passenger elevator shall be available after regular Business Hours, subject to clause (vii) above.) |
(b) | Tenant shall pay to Landlord, as Additional Rent, the cost of electricity provided under Section 3.01(a)(v). Such charges shall be based on the usage shown on the check meter installed for the floor on which the Leased Premises are located, with the cost equitably apportioned among tenants on the floor. Landlord shall make periodic meter readings and make appropriate adjustments among the tenants on the floor based on the actual amount of electricity consumed and then applicable utility company rates. If Tenants electricity usage exceeds the standard level set forth in Section 3.01(a)(v), charges for such additional usage shall be payable under Section 3.02. |
(c) | To the maximum extent permitted by law, Landlord shall not be liable for injuries to persons or damage to property, nor shall Landlord be deemed to have evicted Tenant, nor shall there be any abatement of Rent, nor shall Tenant be relieved from performance of any covenant on its part to be performed hereunder or have any right to terminate the Lease by reason of |
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any (i) deficiency in the provision of Landlord services under this Article 3, (ii) breakdown of equipment or machinery utilized in supplying services, or (iii) curtailment or cessation of services or any other failure by Landlord to perform any obligation under the Lease, except as expressly provided in this Lease. Landlord shall use reasonable diligence to make such repairs as may be required to machinery or equipment within the Building to provide restoration of services and, where the cessation or interruption of service has occurred due to circumstances or conditions beyond Building boundaries, to cause the same to be restored, by diligent application or request to the provider thereof. In no event shall any mortgagee referred to in Section 4.11 be or become liable for any default of Landlord under this Section 3.01(c). |
(d) | Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of fire or other casualty, Tenant shall have the abatement and termination rights set forth in Section 5.07. With respect to matters not covered by Section 5.07, if Tenant is prevented, on account of Landlords failure to perform any of its service obligations under this Lease where the failure is caused by matters within Landlords reasonable control, from using all or a substantial portion (meaning at least twenty five percent) of the Leased Premises for more than five (5) Business Days following notice to Landlord, then from and after the end of such five-(5)-Business-Day period until the Leased Premises (or such portion) is rendered usable, Net Rent and other charges allocable to the Leased Premises, or a just and proportionate part thereof, shall be abated until such time as the service is restored. If such failure renders the Leased Premises untenantable for more than five (5) months following notice to Landlord (and any mortgagee of which Landlord has given Tenant notice), then Tenant may, by thirty (30) days prior notice to Landlord (and such mortgagee), terminate this Lease; provided, however, that such termination shall be effective only if the Leased Premises are not made tenantable within such thirty-day period. |
3.02 | Extra Services. Landlord shall provide to Tenant at Tenants sole cost and expense at standard Building charges in effect from time to time (and subject to the limitations hereinafter set forth) the following: |
(a) | Heating, ventilation, air conditioning or extra service (i) during hours other than Business Hours, and (ii) on days other than Business Days, said heating, ventilation and air conditioning or extra service to be furnished solely upon the prior written request of Tenant given with such advance notice as Landlord may reasonably require; |
(b) | Additional air conditioning and ventilating capacity or chilled and/or condenser water required by reason of any electrical, data processing or other equipment or facilities or services required to support the same, to the extent in excess of that which would be required for Building Standard Improvements; |
(c) | Repair and maintenance which is the obligation of Tenant hereunder, if so requested by Tenant; |
(d) | Additional cleaning and janitorial services to the extent that the quality, quantity, or scope of such services exceeds the building-standard level of services provided to tenants of the Office Section generally. |
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(e) | Additional electricity above the standards specified in the parenthetical in Section 3.01(a)(v), in which case Tenant shall pay to Landlord, as Additional Rent, the costs of such additional electricity usage (at then applicable utility company rates) based either on a separate meter or meters measuring such electrical consumption or on a reasonable determination by Landlords engineer as to the level of electrical consumption in the Leased Premises, which determination shall be conclusive and binding on the parties. Tenant shall be responsible for the costs of installing such meters and all electrical equipment reasonably required for such additional electricity usage. All work necessary for such installation shall be done in accordance with the requirements of Section 4.02 (regarding Tenant Improvements). |
(f) | Maintenance and replacement of initial lamps, bulbs, starters and ballasts; |
(g) | Any Basic Service in amounts reasonably determined by Landlord to exceed the amounts required to be provided under Section 3.01(a). |
The cost chargeable to Tenant for all extra services shall constitute Additional Rent. Building standard charges are designed to recover, from Tenant and other tenants using such services, the costs reasonably estimated by Landlord to provide such services. If the same extra service is provided to Tenant and other tenants (such as regularly scheduled, above-standard cleaning services), Tenants share shall equal the total cost thereof multiplied by the quotient of the Net Rentable Area of the Leased Premises over the total Net Rentable Areas of all areas to which such extra service is provided. Landlord may include the estimated monthly amount of any regularly provided extra service in the Estimated Operating Cost for the Leased Premises, subject to adjustment under Section 2.06 and 2.07. Unless otherwise provided herein, all payments of Additional Rent shall be due with the payment of Gross Rent next due at least thirty (30) days after billing.
3.03 | Window Covering. Building standard window coverings have previously been installed in the Leased Premises. Tenant shall not place or maintain any window covering, blinds or drapes (other than those supplied by Landlord) on any exterior window without Landlords prior written approval which Landlord shall have the right to grant or withhold in its absolute and sole discretion. Tenant shall comply with Landlords Building-standard requirements for lighting all portions of the Leased Premises that are visible from the exterior. Tenant acknowledges that breach of this Section 3.03 will directly and adversely affect the exterior appearance of the Building. |
3.04 | Graphics And Signage. Landlord shall install, at Landlords expense, the initial listing for Tenant in the Building directory in the ground floor lobby and the initial Building standard directional signage for Tenant in the elevator lobby on any multi-tenant floor on which the Leased Premises are located; thereafter, any changes to such signage (not to exceed two additional listings, which may be used for assignees or subtenants of Tenant at the Leased Premises) shall be at Tenants expense. Tenant shall install, at Tenants expense, identification of Tenants name and suite numerals at the main door (or its adjacent window panel) at the entrance to the Leased Premises, with the size, materials, colors, and graphics approved in advance by Landlord, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. Any other signs, notices and graphics of every kind or character, located on such entrance door (or adjacent window panel) shall be subject to Landlords prior written approval, which Landlord shall not unreasonably withhold or delay. |
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Except as set forth above, Tenant shall not be permitted to maintain any signage in the public corridors, the Common Areas, the Building Common Areas, or the General Common Areas, on the exterior of the Leased Premises, or in a location otherwise visible from the exterior of the Leased Premises. |
3.05 | Initial Tenant Improvements. Landlord at its expense shall construct (a) the common area corridors on the floor in building standard condition (the Corridor Work) and (b) a new demising wall separating such corridor from the Additional Premises (studs and corridor-side sheetrock only to the point of turnover to Tenant for the commencement of Tenants Construction Work under Exhibit B hereto) (the Demising Wall Work). Within the common area corridor and other non-Tenant portion of the floor resulting from such demising work, Landlord is responsible for reconfiguration of life safety systems, HVAC, electrical wiring, painting, and finishing, and Tenant is responsible for reconfiguration of such elements within its Leased Premises (subject to reimbursement from the Tenant Work Allowance). The parties will reasonably cooperate with each other to coordinate the Corridor Work (such that such work is substantially completed by the date Tenants Construction Work in the Additional Premises is substantially completed) and the Demising Wall Work by Landlord (prior to the Delivery Date). Notwithstanding the foregoing, Landlord may, at its election, cause the Corridor Work and/or the Demising Wall Work to be performed by the contractor engaged by Tenant, pursuant to a separate contract with Landlord, in which event such work shall be performed concurrently with Tenants Construction Work. If Landlords contractor is performing the Demising Wall Work, Landlord shall substantially complete the Demising Wall Work on or before the Delivery Date for the Additional Premises. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Tenant exercises the Initial Expansion Right for the balance of Floor 12 under Section 2.01(c) above, then Landlord shall not be obligated to perform any Corridor Work or Demising Wall Work in connection with the delivery of the Additional Premises and the Expansion Premises under Section 2.01. |
All other preparation work for the Additional Premises, together with all refurbishment work for the Existing Subleased Premises, shall be performed by Tenant in accordance with Exhibit B attached hereto.
3.06 | Repair Obligation. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Lease, Landlord shall maintain in good operating repair (which may be effected by Landlords replacement of worn-out items) and condition, reasonable wear and tear excepted (so long as such elements continue to operate) and damage by fire or casualty excepted, (i) the structural portions of the Building, (ii) the exterior wall of the Building, including glass and glazing, (iii) the roof, (iv) mechanical, electrical, plumbing and life safety systems, serving to the perimeter of the Leased Premises, and (v) Common Areas, Building Common Areas and General Common Areas. Upon not less than five (5) Business Days prior notice to Tenant (except in the case of an emergency), Landlord shall have the right, but not the obligation, to undertake maintenance or repair work which Tenant is required to perform pursuant to Section 4.04 and which Tenant fails or refuses to perform in a timely and efficient manner; and all reasonable costs incurred by Landlord in performing any such repair for the account of Tenant shall be repaid by Tenant to Landlord upon demand, together with an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of such costs, to reimburse Landlord for its administration and managerial effort. |
3.07 | Quiet Enjoyment. So long as Tenant pays the Rent and performs all of Tenants covenants and agreements contained in this Lease within applicable notice and |
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cure periods, Tenant shall peacefully have, hold and enjoy the Leased Premises, subject to the terms of this Lease and other matters to which this Lease is or may (pursuant to Section 4.11) become subject and subordinate, including without limitation (i) that certain Amended and Restated Sale and Construction Agreement by and among the City of Boston, the Boston Redevelopment Authority, New England Mutual Life Insurance Company and Gerald D. Hines Interests, Inc., dated April 15, 1986, recorded with the Suffolk Registry of Deeds in Book 12515, Page 78, the covenants therein relating to the land being incorporated by reference herein, as required pursuant to the terms of Section 1304 thereof, and (ii) that certain Construction, Operation and Reciprocal Easement Agreement (REA) by and between Landlord and New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, dated May 29, 1986, recorded with the Suffolk Registry of Deeds in Book 2524, Page 236 and as amended on April 13, 1989, each as hereafter amended from time to time. This covenant is in lieu of any other so-called covenant of quiet enjoyment, either express or implied. This covenant and the other covenants of Landlord contained in this Lease shall be binding upon Landlord and its successors and assigns only with respect to breaches occurring during its and their respective ownerships of Landlords interest hereunder. |
ARTICLE 4. TENANTS COVENANTS
4.01 | Obligations Of Tenant To Furnish Floor Plans. Pursuant to Exhibit B, Tenant shall deliver to Landlord for its approval the plans and specifications for Tenants initial improvements to the Additional Premises and any other improvements or other refurbishments to the balance of the Leased Premises. |
4.02 | Construction Of Tenant Improvements. Landlord and Tenant shall comply with the obligations set forth in Exhibit B with respect to all Tenant Improvements to be installed and constructed by such party. |
4.03 | Taxes On Personal Property. In addition to, and wholly apart from its obligation to pay Tenants Proportionate Share of Operating Costs and Impositions, Tenant shall be responsible for and shall pay, prior to delinquency, taxes or governmental service fees, possessory interest taxes, fees or charges in lieu of any such taxes, capital levies, or other charges imposed upon, levied with respect to or assessed against its personal property, or the value of its Tenant Improvements, or its interests pursuant to this Lease. To the extent that any such taxes are not separately assessed and billed to Tenant and were billed to Landlord, Tenant shall pay the amount thereof as invoiced to Tenant by Landlord together with reasonable documentation evidencing such charges. |
4.04 | Repairs By Tenant. Tenant shall maintain and repair the Leased Premises, keep the same in such good order, repair and condition as the same are in on the Term Commencement Date or thereafter may be put in compliance with the Lease and, upon expiration of the Term, surrender the same to Landlord in the condition required under Section 4.07, reasonable wear and tear, damage by fire or other casualty, loss from condemnation, and maintenance and repairs that are Landlords obligation excepted. Tenants obligation shall include, without limitation, the obligation within the Leased Premises to maintain and repair all walls (except the exterior surface or structural portion of the Building or any building systems), floors, ceilings, windows (except for windows located on the exterior of the Building), doors and fixtures and to repair all damage caused by Tenant or its Invitees to the Leased Premises or anywhere in the Building. At the |
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request of Tenant, Landlord shall perform the maintenance and repair work required under this Section 4.04 at Tenants sole cost and expense and as an extra service to be rendered pursuant to Section 3.02. Any work of repair and maintenance performed by or for the account of Tenant by persons other than Landlord shall be performed by contractors approved by Landlord in accordance with Section 4.07 and in accordance with procedures that Landlord shall from time to time establish. Nothing herein contained, however, shall be deemed to impose upon Tenant the obligation to perform maintenance and repair work required by reason of the negligence or wrongful acts of Landlord or its agents or employees. |
4.05 | Waste. Tenant shall not commit or allow any waste or damage (except as set forth in Section 5.07) to be committed in any portion of the Leased Premises. |
4.06 | Assignment Or Sublease. |
(a) | In the event Tenant intends to assign this Lease or sublet the Leased Premises or any part thereof to a person or entity which controls, is controlled by or is under common control with Tenant, or an entity into or with which Tenant is merged or consolidated or to which substantially all of Tenants assets are transferred (hereinafter, Affiliate), then Tenant shall give Landlord written notice of such intent. As used herein, control shall mean ownership of more than 50% of the shares or beneficial interests of the entity in question, together with the power to control and manage the affairs thereof either directly or by election of directors and/or officers. Landlords consent shall not be required for a sublease to an Affiliate, provided that Tenant shall provide Landlord with reasonable evidence of such transaction and the sublease otherwise complies with this Lease. Landlord shall approve an assignment to an Affiliate, provided that the Affiliate is of sound financial condition (taking into account the remaining obligations under the Lease), as reasonably determined by Landlord. Furthermore, Landlords prior consent shall not be required for an office-sharing arrangement (without construction of internal demising walls) that Tenant may from time to time enter into with one or more reputable business vendors providing services to Tenant at the Leased Premises (each, a Tenant Related Party), provided that (i) the same do not cover more than 2,000 square feet of Net Rentable Area in the aggregate, (ii) Tenant provides Landlord with reasonable evidence of such transaction and insurance certificates consistent with the requirements of this Lease, and (iii) the transaction otherwise complies with this Lease. |
(b) | Tenant shall have the right to seek an assignment (or a subletting of more than 2,000 square feet of Net Rentable Area of the Leased Premises) to a person or entity other than an Affiliate, only upon the expiration of one (1) year from the Term Commencement Date. In the event Tenant intends to assign this Lease or sublet the Leased Premises or any part thereof to a person or entity other than an Affiliate, the Tenant shall give Landlord written notice of such intent. Tenant shall provide Landlord with (i) the name of the proposed assignee or subtenant, (ii) such information as to the financial responsibility and standing of such assignee or subtenant as Landlord shall reasonably require, (iii) the proposed transfer instrument or, if such an instrument has not then been negotiated, a summary of the material terms and conditions upon which the proposed assignment or subletting is to be made (including economic terms as negotiated in a letter of intent or, if not then negotiated, as proposed by Tenant), and (iv) any additional information or |
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documents reasonably requested by Landlord within five (5) Business Days after receipt of Tenants initial submission (in which event Tenant shall provide such additional information or documents to Landlord within ten (10) Business Days). Tenant shall not assign this Lease, nor sublet the Leased Premises or any portion thereof to any person or entity who is then a tenant in the Project (unless Landlord, after Tenants request, acknowledges that no suitable space is available therein); any party with whom Landlord or any affiliate of Landlord is then negotiating with respect to space in the Project for a term reasonably comparable to the term proposed by Tenant (as evidenced by Landlords showing space to said party and by exchanging proposals with said party). Landlord shall designate, within seven (7) days after Tenants request specifying the term proposed by Tenant, the parties then meeting such parameters, provided that, if so requested by Landlord, Tenant shall maintain the confidentiality of any such non-public information); or any entity owned by, owning, or affiliated with, directly or indirectly, any tenant or other party as set forth in this sentence. |
(c) | Except for any sublease that is for less than two (2) years and, when combined with all prior sublease(s), is for less than 2,000 square feet of Rentable Floor Area in the aggregate, Landlord shall, by the date five (5) Business Days following the receipt of the additional information or documents required under (b)(iv) above (or, if later, by the date fifteen (15) days after the initial submission of the information required under (b) above) notify Tenant in writing whether Landlord elects to terminate this Lease as to the space in the Leased Premises so affected as of the date specified by Tenant for the commencement of the proposed sublease or assignment and for the period specified by Tenant (that is, such recapture shall be for remainder of the Term if Tenant proposes a sublease for all or substantially all of the remainder of the Lease Term, but otherwise for such shorter period as may be specified by Tenant in its notice hereunder). If Landlord makes such election, Tenant will be relieved of all further obligations hereunder as to such space and such period as is so specified in Tenants notice, and (if the termination applies only to a portion of the Leased Premises) Landlord shall at its expense construct the demising wall and corridor modifications necessary to effect such termination. If Landlord should fail to notify Tenant in writing of such election to terminate within said period, Landlord shall be deemed to have elected not to terminate. If Landlord does not so terminate (or if Landlord has no such termination right under the first sentence of this subparagraph), then by the date fifteen (15) days following receipt of the exact copy of the proposed transfer instrument (or, if later, by the date five (5) Business Days after receipt of the information required under (b) above), Landlord shall grant or deny consent for Tenant to assign this Lease or sublet such space, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or conditioned so long as (w) the proposed transfer instrument complies with this Lease (Landlords approval of which shall not be unreasonably withheld if the same complies with this Lease), (x) the use of the Leased Premises by such proposed assignee or sublessee would be a Permitted Use, (y) the character and business reputation of the proposed assignee or sublessee is consistent with the character of the Building as a first-class office building, and (z) the proposed assignee or sublessee is of sound financial condition as reasonably determined by Landlord (which determination shall take into account the continuing liability of Tenant hereunder and the remaining obligations under the Lease). Any denial by Landlord of such consent shall be in writing and specify the reasons for denial. In no event shall a failure by Landlord to |
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approve a proposed subtenant or assignee cause a termination of this Lease. If Landlord terminates this Lease as to a portion of the Leased Premises as provided above, upon request of either party Landlord and Tenant shall enter into a modification of this Lease that reflects such termination as to the space and term in question. |
(d) | Any rent or other consideration realized by Tenant in connection with any such sublease or assignment in excess of the Rent payable hereunder, after deduction of the reasonable cost of Tenant Improvements installed solely for sublease purposes for which Tenant has paid and reasonable legal fees, commissions and other reasonable subletting and assignment costs, shall be paid as follows: fifty percent (50%) of the excess shall be retained by Tenant and fifty percent (50%) of the excess shall be paid to Landlord. |
(e) | In marketing all or part of the Leased Premises hereunder, Tenant shall not publicly advertise (by means of on-line broker listings, flyers, or otherwise) rental terms for the space that are less than the fair market rent rate for comparable space in the Project. The foregoing sentence shall not, however, prevent Tenant from listing the space with terms available upon request or from privately offering, negotiating, or entering into a transaction (in accordance with this Section 4.07) with a particular party on terms that are lower than the fair market rent rate for comparable space in the Project. |
(f) | In the case of each assignment or sublease: (i) Tenant and the assignee or subtenant, as the case may be, shall execute an assignment or sublease which shall include terms that do not materially differ from those theretofore disclosed to Landlord; (ii) within three (3) Business Days after the execution thereof, an executed copy of the assignment or sublease shall be delivered to Landlord; (iii) the terms and provisions of any such assignment or sublease shall specifically prohibit the assignment of the interest of the sublessee or assignee, or the sub-subletting of all or any portion of the Leased Premises covered by the sublease without the prior written consent of the Landlord, which consent may be withheld in Landlords absolute discretion, unless otherwise expressly agreed by Landlord at the time of such consent; (iv) no assignment or subletting shall affect the continuing primary liability of Tenant (which, following assignment or sublease, shall be joint and several with the assignee or subtenant, as the case may be; however, Landlord shall have no obligation to name any such assignee or sublessee, in connection with enforcing any of Landlords right against Tenant hereunder); (v) no consent by Landlord to any of the foregoing in the specific instance shall operate as a waiver in any subsequent instance; (vi) no assignment or subletting shall be permitted to the extent the same causes Tenant to be in default under any Subordination, Non-Disturbance and Attornment Agreement to which it is a party; (vii) no assignment or subletting shall permit the assignee, sublessee or any other person or entity having an interest in the possession, use, occupancy or utilization of the Leased Premises, to receive or to pay rental or payment on account of the use, occupancy or utilization of the Leased Premises based in whole or in part on the net income or profits derived by any person or entity from any property leased, used, occupied or utilized (other than an amount based on a fixed percentage or percentages of receipts of sales); and (viii) no assignment shall be binding upon Landlord, unless Tenant shall deliver to Landlord an instrument in recordable form which contains a covenant of assumption by the assignee and in form and in substance reasonably satisfactory to Landlord running to |
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Landlord and all persons claiming by, through and under Landlord, but the failure or refusal of the assignee to execute such instrument of assumption shall not release or discharge the assignee from its primary liability as Tenant hereunder. If Tenant enters into any sublease or assignment, Landlord may from time to time require that such subtenant or assignee agree directly with Landlord to be liable, jointly and severally with Tenant, solely to the extent of the obligation undertaken by or attributable to such subtenant or assignee, for the performance of Tenants agreements under this Lease (including payment of rent and other charges under the sublease or assignment), and every sublease or assignment shall so provide. In the event of a default by Tenant under the Lease, Landlord may collect rent and other charges from the subtenant or assignee and apply the net amount collected to the rent and other charges due under the Lease, but no such collection shall be deemed a waiver of the provisions of Section 4.06, or the acceptance of the subtenant or assignee, as a tenant, or a release of Tenant from its direct and primary liability for the performance of all of Tenants obligations under the Lease. |
(g) | No assignment or subletting by Tenant shall relieve Tenant of any obligation under this Lease. Any assignment or subletting without obtaining Landlords prior consent or approval as required under this Section 4.06 shall be void. |
(h) | If Tenant has failed to execute an assignment or sublease within six (6) months following the giving by Tenant of written notice of its intent to effect an assignment or subletting under Section 4.06(b) above, Tenant shall again be obligated to notify Landlord of any intent to assign this Lease or sublet all or any portion of the Leased Premises, and Landlord shall again have the right to approve any proposed assignment or sublease or to terminate this Lease under Section 4.06(c). |
4.07 | Alterations And Surrender. Tenant shall not make or allow to be made any alterations or physical additions in or to the Leased Premises without obtaining the prior written consent of Landlord, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned, or delayed with respect to proposed alterations and additions which (i) comply with all applicable laws, ordinances, rules and regulations, (ii) are compatible with the Building and its mechanical, electrical, HVAC and life safety systems, and do not excessively burden the capacity of such systems; (iii) will not interfere with the use and occupancy of any other portion of the Building; (iv) will not affect the structural integrity of the Building; and (v) will satisfy the standards and comply with the procedures and requirements required for Tenant Improvements, as set forth in Exhibit B. (Notwithstanding the foregoing, Tenant shall not be required to obtain Landlords prior approval of plans for cosmetic alterations or standard equipment installations in the Leased Premises (such as painting, carpeting, or installations of built-in workstations, furniture, cabinets, or decorations), provided that such alterations (i) comply with the preceding sentence and do not include or affect any mechanical, electrical, or plumbing work or life safety or other Building systems or any structural elements of the Building, (ii) the cost of such alterations does not exceed $25,000 in the aggregate and (iii) such alterations shall otherwise be performed by Tenant, with reasonable prior notice to Landlord, in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Lease including, without limitation, this Section 4.07.) Specifically, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Landlords right of consent shall encompass plans and specifications for proposed alterations or additions, construction means and methods, the identity of any contractor or subcontractor to be employed on the work of alterations or additions, and the time for performance |
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of such work. Tenant shall supply to Landlord any documents and information reasonably requested by Landlord in connection with its consent hereunder. (Any comments or disapproval by Landlord shall provide reasonable detail as to the objection.) Landlords approval of the plans, specifications and working drawings for Tenants alterations shall create no responsibility or liability on the part of Landlord for their completeness, design sufficiency, or compliance with all laws, rules and regulations of governmental agencies or authorities. All alterations and additions permitted hereunder shall be made and performed by Tenant without cost or expense to Landlord. Tenant shall take such steps as Landlord or its mortgagee may deem reasonably necessary to avoid the filing, perfection or enforcement of any lien for labor or materials against the Land or the Building by reason of work performed by or on behalf of Tenant. |
All Tenant Improvements under Section 3.05, and all alterations, physical additions or improvements made to the Leased Premises by Tenant under this Section 4.07, shall become the property of Landlord upon the termination of this Lease and shall be surrendered to Landlord upon the termination of this Lease by lapse of time or otherwise; provided, however, that this clause shall not apply to business equipment, fixtures, or related installations or any other moveable equipment, furniture or personal property, and shall not apply to any Tenant Improvements, alterations, additions or improvements specified by Tenant to Landlord and approved by Landlord in writing prior to their installation or to any special installations, plumbing, fixtures or other additions or improvements that would require unusual expense to re-adapt the Leased Premises for general office purposes and are so specified by Landlord for removal (which items Landlord, if so requested by Tenant, shall specify at the time of Landlords approval of the construction documents for such work), all of which shall be removed by Tenant, at Tenants expense, prior to the expiration of the Term (or, if the parties so agree in lieu of such removal, Tenant shall pay to Landlord an amount equal to the estimated cost of removing such items). Landlord specifically reserves the right to require Tenant to remove at the end of the Term any private bath and shower facilities in the Leased Premises and, at Tenants request at the time of approval of the plans therefor, shall indicate which elements of such improvements are to be removed. Tenant shall be responsible for leaving the Leased Premises clean and tenantable (and the obligations of Tenant provided for in this paragraph shall survive any expiration or termination of this Lease). Title to all alterations, physical additions or improvements and Tenant Improvements not removed by Tenant pursuant to this paragraph on or prior to the termination of the Term shall automatically be conveyed and transferred by Tenant to Landlord upon such expiration or termination, and shall be deemed abandoned by Tenant and shall thereupon become the property of Landlord. Tenant shall execute such documentation confirming and ratifying such conveyance and transfer as Landlord shall reasonably require. Tenant shall repair at its sole cost and expense all damage caused to the Leased Premises or the Building by removal of Tenants moveable equipment, or graphics, or furniture and such other alterations and additions as Tenant shall be allowed or required to remove from the Leased Premises by Landlord. If Tenant fails to perform any of its obligations under this paragraph prior to the expiration or earlier termination of the Term, then (without limiting any other remedies for such default) at Landlords election at any time thereafter Landlord may perform such work for Tenants account and at Tenants expense, and upon demand Tenant shall reimburse Landlord for all costs thereof (including the administrative fee set forth in Section 3.06) as an extra service hereunder, together with holdover rent under Section 8.02 for the period required to perform such work if and to the extent Tenants failure to perform such work delays the space preparation work for the next tenant of all or part of the Leased Premises.
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4.08 | Compliance With Laws And Insurance Standards. Tenant shall not occupy for use, or permit any portion of the Leased Premises to be occupied or used, for any business or purpose which is disreputable or creates a fire hazard, or permit anything to be done which would in any way increase the rate of insurance coverage on the Building and/or its contents. If Tenant does or permits anything to be done which shall increase the cost of any insurance policy required to be carried hereunder, then Tenant shall reimburse Landlord, within thirty (30) days after receipt of an invoice, for any such additional premiums. Landlord shall deliver to Tenant a written statement setting forth the amount of any such insurance cost increase and showing in reasonable detail the manner in which it has been computed and determined chargeable to Tenant. Tenant shall comply with all laws, ordinances, orders, rules and regulations (state, federal, municipal or promulgated by other agencies or bodies having or claiming jurisdiction) now in force or which may hereafter be in force related to the use, condition or occupancy of the Leased Premises (excluding any matters that are part of Landlords maintenance or repair obligations hereunder) or the conduct of Tenants business therein, including but not limited to, any requirements concerning hiring of employees and provisions for the disabled, and Tenant shall keep the Leased Premises equipped with all safety appliances required by any law or ordinance or other regulation of any public authority because of any use made by Tenant of the Leased Premises, and shall procure all licenses and permits so required because of such use, and, if required by Landlord, do any work so required because of such use, it being understood that the foregoing provisions shall not be construed to broaden in any way the Permitted Use. Nothing done by Tenant in its use or occupancy of the Leased Premises shall create, require or cause imposition of any requirement by any public authority for structural or other upgrading of or improvement to the Building. Tenant shall not allow to be brought into the Leased Premises or the Building any biologically or chemically active or other hazardous substances or materials, except for ordinary office and cleaning supplies used in the ordinary course of Tenants business and use of the Leased Premises in compliance with the Lease and applicable law. If a lender or governmental agency shall require monitoring or testing to ascertain whether there has been a release of such materials or substances, then the reasonable costs thereof shall be reimbursed by Tenant to Landlord if the requirement is based upon the reasonable belief that the release was caused by Tenant or any person acting under or through Tenant. |
4.09 | Entry For Repairs And Leasing. After reasonable notice (which may be made, in accordance with customary administrative procedures, by telephone or electronic means, and shall not be required by Tenant to be made more than three (3) days in advance, except in emergencies when no such notice shall be required), Landlord, its agents and representatives, shall have the right to enter the Leased Premises to inspect the same, to exercise such rights as may be permitted hereunder, to make repairs or alterations to the Building or other tenant spaces therein, to deal with emergencies, to post such notices as may be permitted or required by law to prevent the perfection of liens against Landlords interest in the Building, or to exhibit the Leased Premises to prospective tenants (during the last twelve (12) months of the Term), purchasers, encumbrancers or others, or for any other purpose consistent with the operation of comparable buildings in downtown Boston as Landlord may deem reasonably necessary or desirable; provided, however, that Landlord shall exercise all such entry rights in a manner consistent |
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with comparable buildings in downtown Boston and use reasonable efforts not to unreasonably interfere with Tenants business operations. Except as set forth in Section 3.01(d), Tenant shall not be entitled to any abatement of Rent by reason of the exercise of any such right of entry. |
4.10 | No Nuisance. Tenant shall conduct its business and control its agents, employees, invitees and visitors in such manner as not to create any nuisance, or interfere with, annoy or disturb any other tenant or Landlord in its operation of the Building. |
4.11 | Subordination. Landlord represents that there is currently no Mortgage (or ground lease) on the Building or the Land. This Lease and the rights of Tenant hereunder shall be subject and subordinate to the lien of any Mortgage hereafter placed on the Building or the Land, and to any and all advances made thereunder, interest thereon or costs incurred in connection therewith. Without the consent of Tenant, the holder of any such Mortgage shall have the right to elect to be subject and subordinate to this Lease, such subordination to be effective upon such terms and conditions as such holder may direct which are not inconsistent with the provisions hereof. Notwithstanding any foreclosure or sale under any such Mortgage (or deed in lieu thereof), this Lease (pursuant to a subordination, non-disturbance and attornment agreement as provided below or otherwise at the option of the holder of the Mortgage, the purchaser at a foreclosure sale or grantee of deed in lieu of foreclosure) shall remain in full force and effect and Tenant shall attorn to the holder or the purchaser at any such sale or foreclosure or the grantee of any such deed. So long as there is no Event of Default, Tenants agreement to subordinate the Lease to a future Mortgage as set forth above shall be conditioned on Landlord causing the holder of such Mortgage to execute and deliver a subordination, non-disturbance and attornment agreement on such mortgagees customary form, which shall provide that, so long as this Lease is in full force and effect and there exists no Event of Default hereunder, Tenants rights under this Lease shall not be disturbed by reason of such subordination or by reason of foreclosure of such Mortgage, or exercise of the statutory power of sale, or receipt of deed in lieu of foreclosure. Upon any attornment as set forth above, this Lease shall continue in full force and effect as a direct lease between such mortgagee, purchaser or grantee, as a successor landlord, and Tenant, upon all the terms, conditions and covenants set forth herein, except that such mortgagee, purchaser or grantee (unless formerly the Landlord under this Lease) shall not be (a) bound by any payment of Rent for more than one month in advance; (b) bound by any amendment or modification of this Lease made without the consent of the holder of the Mortgage; (c) liable in any way to Tenant for any prior act or omission, neglect or default on the part of Landlord under this Lease, (d) obligated to perform any work or improvements to be done by Landlord in the Leased Premises; or (e) subject to any counterclaim or set off which theretofore accrued to Tenant against Landlord. Tenant further agrees that this Lease shall be subject and subordinate to any amendment hereafter made to the recorded instruments referenced in Section 3.07, and to any other instrument by which Landlord may subject the Building and the Land to easements in connection with the development, redevelopment, alteration, improvement, operation, maintenance or repair thereof, provided the same do not interfere (in a manner inconsistent with the operation of Comparable Buildings in Downtown Boston) with Tenants use of the Leased Premises for the Permitted Uses or unreasonably interfere with Tenants rights and benefits expressly set forth in the Lease. The provisions of this Section 4.11 shall be self-operative, with no further instrument of subordination being required. Within ten (10) days after Landlords request, |
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Landlord and Tenant shall execute, acknowledge and deliver any documents reasonably appropriate to confirm such provisions. No owner of the Leased Premises shall be liable under this Lease except for breaches of Landlords obligations occurring while such person is the owner of the Leased Premises. |
4.12 | Estoppel Certificate. At Landlords request, Tenant shall execute (within fifteen (15) days after Tenant receives any such request) estoppel certificates on a form specified by Landlord, addressed to (i) any mortgagee or prospective mortgagee of Landlord or (ii) any purchaser or prospective purchaser of all or any portion of, or interest in, the Building, certifying that the Lease is in full force and effect against Tenant without amendment except as provided therein, the date through which Gross Rent has been paid, that neither Tenant nor, to its knowledge, Landlord is in default under the Lease and to its knowledge Tenant has no claims, defenses, or offsets against the enforcement of the Lease in accordance with its terms, the amount of any security deposit or letter of credit held under the Lease, and such other matters concerning the Lease as such mortgagee(s) or purchaser(s) may reasonably require; provided, however, that in no event shall any such estoppel certificate require an amendment of the provisions hereof or otherwise affect or abridge Tenants rights hereunder. At Tenants request, Landlord shall execute (within fifteen (15) days after Landlord receives any such request) an estoppel certificate to a proposed subtenant, assignee, or lender of Tenant on a form reasonably acceptable to Landlord, certifying as to such facts (if true) regarding the Lease as are customarily addressed in such estoppel certificates; provided, however, that in no event shall any such estoppel certificate require an amendment of the provisions hereof or otherwise affect or abridge Landlords rights hereunder. |
4.13 | Tenants Remedies. Tenant shall look solely to Landlords interest in the Building for recovery of any judgment from Landlord. Landlord, its agents, its employees, and (if Landlord is a partnership or joint venture) its partners, whether general or limited, or (if Landlord is a corporation), its directors, officers, and shareholders, or (if Landlord is a limited liability company), its members, manager, and officers, or (if Landlord is a trust) its trustees and beneficiaries, shall never be personally liable for any such judgment. Any lien obtained to enforce any such judgment and levy of execution thereon shall be subject and subordinate to any Mortgage. Landlord shall not be deemed to be in default of any obligation hereunder unless Tenant has given Landlord written notice of the alleged default specifying the applicable provision of this Lease and the same remains uncured after thirty days (or, except in cases of imminent risk to person or property, such longer period as may be reasonably necessary to cure the same). In no event shall Landlord be liable for consequential or indirect damages. In addition to the other remedies provided in this Lease, Tenant shall be entitled to the restraint by injunction of the violation or attempted or threatened violation of any of the covenants, conditions or provisions of this Lease by Landlord or to a decree compelling specific performance of any such covenants, conditions or provisions. No termination remedy that is not expressly set forth in this Lease for any breach or failure by Landlord to perform any obligation under this Lease shall be implied or applicable as a matter of law. This Lease shall be construed as though Landlords and Tenants covenants contained herein are independent and not dependent, and Tenant hereby waives the benefit of any statute or judicial law to the contrary. |
4.14 | Rules and Regulations. Tenant shall comply with the rules and regulations for the Building attached as Exhibit C and such amendments thereto as Landlord may adopt from time to time with prior notice to Tenant. Landlords rules and regulations shall not be enforced or enacted against Tenant in a discriminatory manner. |
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4.15 | Personal Property At Tenants Risk. All of the furnishings, fixtures, equipment, effects and property of every kind, nature, and description of Tenant and of all persons claiming by, through and under Tenant which, during the continuance of this Lease or any occupancy of the Leased Premises by Tenant or anyone claiming under Tenant, may be on the Leased Premises or elsewhere in the Building, shall be at the sole risk and hazard of Tenant to the maximum extend permitted by law, and if the whole or any part thereof shall be destroyed or damaged by fire, water or otherwise, by the leakage or bursting of water pipes, steam pipes, or other pipes, or by theft or from any other cause, no part of said loss or damage is to be charged to or be borne by Landlord, except Landlord shall in no event be held harmless or exonerated for any liability to Tenant or to any other person, for any injury, loss, damage or liability to the extent such indemnity, hold harmless or exoneration is prohibited by law. |
4.16 | Payment Of Landlords Expenses. Tenant shall pay, as Additional Rent, all reasonable out-of-pocket costs, counsel and other fees incurred by Landlord in connection with all requests by Tenant for consent or approval under this Lease (excluding approvals of plans for Tenants Construction Work), and the enforcement by Landlord of any obligation of Tenant under this Lease. |
4.17 | Letter of Credit/Security Deposit. On the execution of this Lease, Tenant shall deliver to Landlord either (a) a letter of credit or (b) a cash security deposit securing the performance of the obligations of Tenant hereunder, in the amount specified therefor in the Basic Lease Information Sheet. Any such letter of credit shall comply with the requirements of Exhibit D attached hereto (as more particularly defined therein, the Letter of Credit), which is incorporated herein by reference. Any cash security deposit from time to time held hereunder may be mingled with other funds of Landlord and no fiduciary relationship shall be created with respect to such deposit, nor shall Landlord be liable to pay Tenant interest thereon. If Tenant shall fail to perform any of its obligations under this Lease after the expiration of any applicable notice and cure period (or fail to perform any of its obligations under the Lease and transmittal of a default notice or running of a cure period is barred or tolled by applicable law), Landlord may, but shall not be obliged to, draw on the Letter of Credit and/or apply any cash security deposit to the extent necessary to cure such failure to pay, and Tenant shall reinstate such cash security deposit or Letter of Credit to the original amount thereof upon demand (it being understood that such reinstatement obligation shall take into account both the then undrawn amount of the Letter of Credit and any unapplied cash security deposit then held by Landlord). Within thirty (30) days after the expiration or sooner termination of the Term the cash security deposit or Letter of Credit, to the extent not applied, shall be returned to the Tenant, without interest. |
4.18 | Tenants Financial Condition. Within ten (10) Business Days after request from Landlord from time to time (but not more often than once in any twelve-(12)-month period), Tenant shall deliver to Landlord (or, at Tenants election, directly to the party requesting the same, provided it is a party described in the next sentence) Tenants financial statements (audited, if available) for the most recent fiscal year for which such statements are available and, for the most recent four quarters not covered by such statements, quarterly financial statements certified by Tenants chief financial officer. Such financial statements shall be requested only |
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as reasonably necessary to satisfy the needs of Landlords current and prospective mortgagees, lenders, purchasers, and investors. All financial statements shall be confidential and shall be used only for the purposes set forth in this Lease. If requested by Tenant, any such non-public financial information shall be provided pursuant to a commercially reasonable confidentiality agreement, in form reasonably acceptable to the parties. |
4.19 | Energy Conservation. Tenant agrees to cooperate with Landlord and to abide by all Building regulations which Landlord may, from time to time, reasonably prescribe for the proper functioning and protection of the heating, air-conditioning, lighting, and electrical systems and in order to maximize the effect thereof and to conserve heat, air-conditioning, and electricity. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Lease, Landlord may institute such policies, programs and measures as may be in Landlords reasonable judgment necessary, required or expedient for the conservation or preservation of energy or energy services, or as may be necessary to comply with applicable codes, rules, regulations or standards. |
4.20. | Discharge of Mechanics and Materialmans Liens. Tenant agrees within ten (10) Business Days after notice of filing to discharge of record by payment, filing of the necessary bond, order of a court of competent jurisdiction, or other means acceptable to Landlord, any mechanics, materialmans, design professional or other lien against the Leased Premises and/or Landlords or Tenants interest therein (or any other portion of the Project) when such lien arises out of work performed or claimed to have been performed in or on the Leased Premises by Tenant or any party acting under or through Tenant, which liens may arise out of any payment due for, or purported to be due for, any labor, services, materials, supplies or equipment alleged to have been furnished to or for the Tenant in, upon or about the Leased Premises. In the event Tenant contests any such lien, Tenant shall either (i) deposit with Landlord an amount equal to the claims made by such lien, together with interest thereon as it may from time to time become due, as security for the payment and discharge thereof prior to execution or (ii) deliver to Landlord a bond of a recognized surety authorized to write surety bonds in Massachusetts assuring the payment and removal of such lien, together with any interest or penalty thereon, and naming Landlord as a co-obligee. Any judgment or other process issued in such a contest shall be paid and discharged before execution thereof. If Tenant fails to keep this covenant, in addition to all other remedies available to Landlord under this Lease, Landlord may, at its option, purchase a surety bond at twice the amount of the lien, securing such lien, and Tenant agrees to pay to Landlord, as Additional Rent, the cost thereof, plus (i) an administrative charge of ten percent (10%) of such cost to compensate Landlord for its expenses and overhead, and (ii) Landlords reasonable attorneys fees and damages. |
ARTICLE 5. CASUALTY, EMINENT DOMAIN
5.01 | Landlords Casualty Insurance. Landlord shall maintain, or cause to be maintained, a policy or policies of all risk or special form insurance (or its then comparable equivalent) insuring the Building against loss or damage by fire or other insurable hazards and contingencies, with coverages and amounts required from time to time by Landlords first mortgagee or, if there is no such requirement, in then commercially reasonable types of coverage and amounts as determined from time to time by Landlord, in the exercise of its good faith judgment, to be necessary or appropriate for the Building as a first-class mixed-use |
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project in the Back Bay district of Boston; provided, that Landlord shall not be obligated to insure any furniture, equipment, machinery, goods or supplies which Tenant may keep or maintain in the Leased Premises or any Tenant Improvements or other Alterations installed by Tenant. If the annual premiums charged Landlord for such casualty insurance exceed the standard premium rates because the nature of Tenants operations in the Leased Premises results in extra-hazardous exposure, then Tenant shall, upon receipt of appropriate premium invoices, reimburse Landlord for such increases in premium as Additional Rent. |
5.02 | Landlords Liability Insurance. Landlord shall maintain, or cause to be maintained, a policy or policies of commercial general liability insurance, with coverages and amounts required from time to time by Landlords first mortgagee or, if there is no such requirement, in then commercially reasonable types of coverage and amounts as determined from time to time by Landlord, in the exercise of its good faith judgment, to be necessary or appropriate for the Building as a first-class mixed-use project in the Back Bay district of Boston. |
5.03 | Tenants Insurance. Tenant shall maintain the following coverages in the following amounts: |
(a) | Commercial General Liability insurance covering claims of bodily injury, personal injury, and property damage arising out of Tenants operations and contractual liabilities, including coverage formerly known as broad form, on an occurrence basis, with minimum primary limits of $1,000,000 each occurrence and $2,000,000 annual aggregate and a minimum excess/umbrella limit of $5,000,000. |
(b) | Property insurance covering (i) all office furniture, business and trade fixtures, office equipment, free-standing cabinet work, movable partitions, merchandise and all other items of Tenants property in the Leased Premises installed by, for, or at the expense of Tenant (Tenants Property), and (ii) any Tenant Improvements (Tenant-Insured Improvements), together with business interruption insurance covering periods of not less than one (1) year in the following amounts: (i) for the first twelve (12) months of the Term an amount equal to 1 1⁄2 times the Gross Rent ; and (ii) for each succeeding twelve-(12)-month period, in amounts not less than the Gross Rent and Tenants other operating expenses for the preceding twelve-(12)-month period, provided that Tenant may, at its option, elect not to maintain business interruption coverage, provided that if Tenant does not maintain such coverage, any loss or damage to Tenant which would have been covered by such business interruption coverage shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Lease, to be covered by insurance. Such insurance shall be written on a special cause of loss form (or its then comparable equivalent) for physical loss or damage, for the full replacement cost value (subject to reasonable deductible amounts) without deduction for depreciation of the covered items and in amounts that meet any co-insurance clauses of the policies of insurance, and shall include coverage for damage or other loss caused by fire or other peril, including vandalism and malicious mischief, theft, water damage of any type, including sprinkler leakage, bursting or stoppage of pipes, and explosion, and providing business interruption coverage for a period of one year. |
(c) | Workers Compensation and Employers Liability or other similar insurance to the extent required by Law. If alcoholic beverages are sold, used, delivered |
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or stored on, in or from the Leased Premises, and such alcoholic beverages shall only be sold, used, delivered or stored if Tenants Permitted Use expressly so allows, Tenant shall maintain throughout the Term at its expense, liquor liability insurance or dram shop liability insurance (as applicable) (Dram Shop Insurance) with combined single limits of not less than $2,000,000 per occurrence covering any claims relating to the manufacture, storage, sale, use or giving away of any alcoholic or other intoxicating liquor or beverage, which claims could be asserted against Landlord, Tenant or the Leased Premises. |
(d) | The minimum limits of insurance required to be carried by Tenant shall not limit Tenants liability. Such insurance shall (i) be issued by an insurance company that has an A.M. Best rating of not less than A-VIII; (ii) be in form and content consistent with the requirements of this Lease and reasonably acceptable to Landlord; (iii) may be maintained as part of a blanket policy insuring Tenant and its affiliates at other locations, and (iv) provide that the insurer shall endeavor to provide to Landlord thirty (30) days prior notice of any modification or cancellation, except that ten (10) days prior notice may be given in the case of nonpayment of premiums. Tenants Commercial General Liability Insurance shall (a) name Landlord, Landlords managing agent, and any other party designated by Landlord (Additional Insured Parties) as additional insureds; and (b) be primary insurance as to all claims thereunder and provide that any insurance carried by Landlord is excess and non-contributing with Tenants insurance. Tenant shall be responsible for repairing or restoring the Leased Premises as provided in Section 5.07 and shall designate Landlord as a loss payee with respect to Tenants property insurance on any Tenant-Insured Improvements. Tenant shall deliver to Landlord, on or before the Term Commencement Date and at least fifteen (15) days before the expiration dates thereof, certificates from Tenants insurance company on the forms currently designated ACORD 28 (Evidence of Commercial Property Insurance) and ACORD 25-S (Certificate of Liability Insurance) or the equivalent. Attached to the ACORD 25-S (or equivalent) there shall be an endorsement naming the Additional Insured Parties as additional insureds which shall be binding on Tenants insurance company and shall expressly require the insurance company to endeavor to provide Landlord and each Additional Insured Party at least thirty (30) days prior notice of modification or cancellation, except that ten (10) days prior notice may be given in the case of nonpayment of premiums. Upon Landlords request, Tenant shall deliver to Landlord, in lieu of such certificates, copies of the policies of insurance required to be carried under Section 5.03(a) showing that the Additional Insured Parties are named as additional insureds. |
(e) | Tenant shall maintain such increased amounts of the insurance required to be carried by Tenant under this Section 5.03, and such other types and amounts of insurance covering the Leased Premises and Tenants operations therein, as may be reasonably requested by Landlord, but not in excess of the amounts and types of insurance then being required by landlords of buildings comparable to and in the vicinity of the Building. In the event that Tenant fails to timely provide evidence of insurance required to be provided by Tenant hereunder and such failure continues for five (5) business days after Landlords written notice to Tenant, Landlord shall be authorized (but not required) to procure such coverage in the amounts stated with all costs thereof to be chargeable to Tenant as Additional Rent, and payable by Tenant upon receipt of written invoice thereof. |
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5.04 | Indemnity And Exoneration. Except to the extent such indemnity or exoneration is prohibited by law, |
(a) | Landlord shall not be liable to Tenant for injury to any person or any loss or damage to any property or any inconvenience caused by (i) theft, burglary or acts of unauthorized persons in on about the Building, (ii) any act of Force Majeure or (iii) any repair or alteration of any part of the Building or failure to make any such repair; |
(b) | Except to the extent of Landlords negligence or willful misconduct, Tenant shall indemnify Landlord and hold Landlord harmless of and from any and all loss, cost, damage, injury or expense arising out of or related to claims of injury to or death of persons or damage to property occurring in or resulting from the use or occupancy of the Leased Premises or activities of Tenant in or about the Leased Premises or, to the extent of Tenants negligence or willful misconduct, elsewhere in or about the Building, such indemnity to include, without limitation, the obligation to provide all costs of defense against any such claims; and |
(c) | Tenant shall hold and save Landlord harmless and indemnify Landlord of and from any and all loss, cost, damage, injury or expense arising out of or in any way related to any breach by Tenant of its obligations under this Lease or any claims for payment for work or labor performed, materials or supplies furnished to or at the request of Tenant or in connection with performance of any work done for the account of Tenant in the Leased Premises or the Building, such indemnity to include, without limitation, the obligation to provide all costs of defense against any such claim. |
5.05 | Waiver Of Subrogation Rights. Anything in this Lease to the contrary notwithstanding, Landlord and Tenant each waive all rights of recovery, claim, action or cause of action against the other, its agents (including partners, both general and limited), officers, directors, shareholders, members trustees, beneficiaries, or employees, for any loss or damage that may occur to the Leased Premises, or any improvements thereto, to the Building or to any personal property of such party therein, by reason of fire, the elements, or any other cause which is insured against or is required to be insured against by either party under this Lease, regardless of cause or origin, including negligence of the other party hereto, its agents, officers or employees; and each party covenants that no insurer shall hold any right of subrogation against such other party. Each of Landlord and Tenant shall advise insurers of the foregoing and such waiver shall be a part of each policy maintained by Landlord and Tenant, as applicable, which applies to the Leased Premises, any part of the Building or Landlords or Tenants use and occupancy of any part thereof; provided that this waiver shall be null and void if such waiver is not generally obtainable from insurance companies in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and provided further that all costs associated with obtaining insurer consent shall be borne by the party benefited by such waiver. |
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5.06 | Condemnation And Loss or Damage. |
(a) | If the Leased Premises or any substantial portion thereof (meaning at least twenty-five percent thereof) or any portion of the Building shall be taken or condemned for any public purpose to such an extent as to render the Leased Premises or such portion untenantable, this Lease shall, at the option of either party (provided such option shall be exercised by the giving of notice by the exercising party to the other party within sixty (60) days from the date the exercising party has been notified in writing of such taking or condemnation) forthwith cease and terminate as of the date of the taking. All proceeds from any taking or condemnation of the Leased Premises shall belong to and be paid to Landlord and Tenant hereby assigns to Landlord its interest in said proceeds subject to the rights of any holder of any Mortgage; provided, however, that Landlord shall cooperate with Tenant if Tenant seeks, in a separate proceeding, to recover, at its cost and expense, compensation for its moving expenses, personal property, and loss of business, provided that in no event shall any such recovery by Tenant have the effect of diminishing or delaying the award payable to Landlord on account of any taking or condemnation. |
(b) | In the event of a taking of all or any portion of the Leased Premises not exceeding thirty days, there shall be no abatement of Rent and Tenant shall remain fully obligated for performance of all of the covenants and obligations on its part to be performed pursuant to the terms of this Lease and shall be entitled to any award for the use of such space during such temporary taking. For any taking exceeding thirty days, Gross Rent shall be equitably abated in proportion to the nature and extent of the taking, and for any temporary taking exceeding six (6) months the termination rights under (a) above shall apply. All proceeds awarded or paid with respect thereto shall belong to Landlord. |
5.07 | Damage Due to Fire And Casualty. In the event of a fire or other casualty in the Leased Premises, Tenant shall immediately give notice thereof to Landlord. In the event of a fire or other casualty in the Leased Premises, the following provisions shall then apply whether or not Tenant has given notice to Landlord: |
(a) | If the damage is limited solely to the Leased Premises and Landlord determines that the Leased Premises can be made tenantable with substantially all damage repaired within six (6) months from the date such work begins, then, subject to any limitation contained in any Mortgage, Landlord shall be obligated to rebuild the same and shall proceed diligently to do so; provided, however, that Landlord shall have no obligation to repair or restore the Leased Premises or Tenant Improvements except to the extent that Landlord realizes insurance proceeds, if any, sufficient for such purposes and for all other restoration and repair purposes and to the extent such proceeds are not applied on account of the indebtedness secured by any Mortgage. |
(b) | If portions of the Building outside the boundaries of the Leased Premises are damaged or destroyed (whether or not the Leased Premises are also damaged or destroyed) and Landlord determines that the Leased Premises and the Building can both be made tenantable with substantially all damage repaired within six (6) months from the date work begins, and provided that Landlord determines that such repair and restoration is economically feasible, then subject to any limitation contained in any Mortgage, Landlord shall be |
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obligated to do so; provided, however, that Landlord shall have no obligation to repair or restore the Leased Premises or Tenant Improvements except to the extent that Landlord realizes insurance proceeds, if any, allocable thereto and sufficient for such purpose and for all other restoration and repair purposes. |
(c) | If neither subsection 5.07(a) nor 5.07(b) above applies, because Landlord has determined that either the Leased Premises or the Building, or both, cannot be made tenantable within six (6) months from the date work begins (or if the Leased Premises or the Building will not be repaired due to inadequacy of insurance proceeds), Landlord shall notify Tenant within sixty (60) days after the date of damage or destruction and either Tenant or Landlord may terminate this Lease within thirty (30) days after the date of such notice; provided, however, that if the Leased Premises are not damaged Landlord shall not terminate the Lease unless it terminates all similarly situated leases in the Building; and provided further that Landlord or its mortgagee shall have the right to elect to reconstruct the Building and the Leased Premises, in which event Landlord or its mortgagee shall so notify Tenant within said sixty (60) day period and Tenant shall thereupon have no right to terminate this Lease, except as set forth in the next sentence. If the restoration under subsection 5.07(a), (b) or (c) does not render the Leased Premises tenantable (or if Landlord determines that the Leased Premises will not be rendered tenantable) within nine (9) months from the date of casualty (as reasonably extended for any delay by Tenant, or as reasonably extended for other Force Majeure event(s), but not in excess of three (3) months in the aggregate for such other Force Majeure event(s)), then Tenant may terminate the Lease within thirty (30) days thereafter if the restoration is not then substantially completed. In addition, in the event the Leased Premises are rendered untenantable due to fire or other casualty during the last year of the Term and the estimated restoration period (as reasonably determined by Landlords architect or engineer) exceeds one half of the remaining Term, then either party may terminate the Lease on at least thirty (30) days prior notice to the other if the restoration is not then substantially complete. |
(d) | During any period when the Leased Premises or any portion thereof are rendered untenantable by damage or destruction, Gross Rent shall abate proportionately until such time as the Leased Premises are made tenantable and no portion of the Rent so abated shall be subject to subsequent recapture; provided, however, that the duration of said Rent abatement period shall not exceed one (1) year from the date the Leased Premises are rendered untenantable by such damage or destruction, except as set forth in the next sentence. If the Leased Premises are not rendered tenantable prior to the expiration of such one-year abatement period and Landlord does not agree to extend such abatement period until the Leased Premises are rendered tenantable, then Tenant shall have the further right to terminate the Lease by notice given within thirty days after such one-year period, which termination notice shall be effective as of the end of such one-year abatement period. |
(e) | The proceeds from any insurance paid by reason of damage to or destruction of the Building or any part thereof, the Building Standard Improvements or any other element, component or property insured by Landlord shall belong to and be paid to Landlord, subject to the rights of the holder of any Mortgage, and Tenant hereby assigns to Landlord any interest in said proceeds. |
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(f) | Notwithstanding any provisions contained in this Section 5.07 to the contrary in no event shall any fire or other casualty give Tenant the right to require or demand that Landlord repair or restore any part of the Building (other than the Leased Premises or access thereto, and then only to the extent required elsewhere in this Section 5.07). |
ARTICLE 6. DEFAULT
6.01 | Events of Default. The occurrence of any of the following shall constitute an Event of Default on the part of the Tenant: |
(a) | Nonpayment of Rent. Failure to pay any payment of Rent (or any installment or portion thereof) upon the date when payment is due, such failure continuing for a period of five (5) Business Days after written notice of such failure; provided, however, that Landlord shall not be required to provide such notice more than twice during any twelve-month period of the Term with respect to non-payment of any installment of Gross Rent or any portion thereof, the third such non-payment constituting default without requirement of notice; |
(b) | Other Obligations. Failure to perform any obligation, agreement or covenant under this Lease other than those matters specified in Section 6.01(a), such failure continuing for thirty (30) days after written notice of such failure (or, except in cases of imminent risk to person or property, such longer period as is reasonably necessary to remedy such default, provided that Tenant shall within such thirty (30)-day period have commenced such remedy and thereafter Tenant shall continuously and diligently pursue such remedy until such default is cured), provided, however, that the cure period for any failure to perform any restoration obligations under Section 4.07 shall be five (5) Business Days; |
(c) | Abandonment. Abandonment of the Leased Premises or any part thereof during the Term. Tenant shall be deemed to have abandoned the Leased Premises if the Leased Premises remain substantially vacant or unoccupied for a period of ninety (90) days. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of this clause (c), Tenant shall not be deemed to have abandoned the Leased Premises provided Tenant continues to pay all Rent due and payable under this Lease for the Term of the Lease. |
(d) | General Assignment. A general assignment by Tenant for the benefit of creditors; |
(e) | Bankruptcy. The filing of any voluntary petition in bankruptcy by Tenant, or the filing of an involuntary petition by Tenants creditors, which involuntary petition remains undischarged or unstayed for a period of sixty (60) days. In the event that under applicable law the trustee in bankruptcy or Tenant has the right to affirm this Lease and continue to perform the obligations of Tenant hereunder, such trustee or Tenant shall, in such time period as may be permitted by the bankruptcy court having jurisdiction, cure all defaults of Tenant hereunder outstanding as of the date of the affirmance of this Lease and provide to Landlord such adequate assurances as may be necessary to ensure Landlord of the continued performance of Tenants obligations under this Lease (including, at a minimum, the maintenance of a security deposit equal to six (6) monthly installments of Gross Rent); |
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(f) | Receivership. The employment of a receiver to take possession of all or substantially all of Tenants assets or the Leased Premises, if such receivership remains undissolved for a period of ten (10) Business Days after creation thereof; |
(g) | Attachment. The attachment, execution or other judicial seizure of all or substantially all of Tenants assets or the Leased Premises, if such attachment or other seizure remains undismissed or undischarged for a period of thirty (30) days after the levy thereof; |
(h) | Insolvency. The admission by Tenant in writing of its inability to pay its debts as they become due, the filing by Tenant of a petition seeking any reorganization, arrangement, composition, readjustment, liquidation, dissolution or similar relief under any present or future statute, law or regulation, the filing by Tenant of an answer admitting or failing timely to contest a material allegation of a petition filed against Tenant in any such proceeding, or if within sixty (60) days after the commencement of any proceeding against Tenant seeking any reorganization, or arrangement, composition, readjustment, liquidation, dissolution or similar relief under any present or future statute, law or regulation, such proceeding shall not have been dismissed. As used in subsections (d) through (h) above, the term Tenant shall be deemed to include any one or more of Tenant and any person or entity that is liable for Tenants obligations under this Lease, including without limitation any Guarantor or general partner of Tenant. |
6.02 | Remedies Upon Default. |
(a) | If an Event of Default occurs, Landlord shall have the right, with or without notice or demand, immediately to terminate this Lease, and at any time thereafter recover possession of the Leased Premises or any part thereof and expel and remove therefrom Tenant and any other person occupying the same, by notice, by entry or by any other lawful means, and again repossess and enjoy the Leased Premises without prejudice to any of the remedies that Landlord may have under this Lease, or at law or equity by reason of Tenants default or of such termination. |
(b) | Even though Tenant has breached this Lease, this Lease and the right to recover Rent as it becomes due shall continue in effect for so long as Landlord does not terminate this Lease under Section 6.02(a) hereof. Acts of maintenance, preservation or efforts to lease the Leased Premises or the appointment of a receiver upon application of Landlord to protect Landlords interest under this Lease shall not constitute an election to terminate Tenants right to possession. |
6.03 | Damages Upon Termination. Should Landlord terminate this Lease pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.02(a) hereof, Landlord shall have all the rights and remedies of a landlord in law or in equity. Upon such termination, in addition to any other rights and remedies of a Landlord may be entitled under applicable law, Landlord shall be entitled to recover from Tenant: (i) the worth at the time of award of the unpaid Rent and other amounts which had been earned at the time of termination; (ii) the worth at the time of award of the amount by which the unpaid |
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Rent which would have been earned after termination until the time of award exceeds the amount of such Rent loss that the Tenant proves could have been reasonably avoided; (iii) the worth at the time of award of the amount by which the unpaid Rent for the balance of the Term after the time of award exceeds the rental value of the Leased Premises for the balance of the Term, taking into account reasonable projections of vacancy and the time required to re-lease the Leased Premises of at least six months; and (iv) any other amount necessary to compensate Landlord for all damages proximately caused by Tenants failure to perform its obligations under this Lease, provided that Tenant shall not be liable for consequential damages (which term shall not be construed to apply to damage remedies expressly set forth in this Article 6 or Section 8.02). Tenant further covenants, as an additional cumulative obligation after any such termination, to punctually pay to Landlord all sums and perform all obligations which Tenant covenants in this Lease to pay and to perform, as if this Lease had not been terminated. In calculating the amounts to be paid by Tenant pursuant to this Section 6.03, Tenant shall be credited with any amount paid to Landlord pursuant to this Section 6.03 and also (in respect of the amounts referred to in (i) and (ii)) the net proceeds of rent obtained by Landlord by reletting the Leased Premises through the time of award, after deducting all Landlords reasonable expenses in connection with such reletting, including, without limitation, all reasonable repossession costs, brokerage commissions, fees for legal services and expenses of preparing the Leased Premises for reletting, it being agreed by Tenant that Landlord may (x) relet the Leased Premises or any part thereof for a term or terms which may at Landlords option be equal or less than or exceed the period which would otherwise have constituted the balance of the Term and may grant such concessions and free rent as Landlord in its reasonable judgment considers advisable or necessary to relet the same and (y) make such alterations, repairs and decorations in the Leased Premises as Landlord in its reasonable judgment considers advisable or necessary to relet the same, and no action of Landlord in accordance with the foregoing or failure to relet or collect rent under Landlords reletting of the Leased Premises shall operate or be construed to release or reduce Tenants liability as aforesaid. The time of award shall refer to such time as (I) Tenant shall, as a settlement of the amounts due pursuant to this Section 6.03, pay to Landlord such sums pursuant to a written agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Landlord, or (II) the date on which a judgment shall be entered in a court of competent jurisdiction to the effect that Tenant shall pay Landlord the amounts due and owing pursuant to this Section 6.03. The worth at the time of award of the amounts referred to in (i) and (ii) shall mean such amounts together with interest at the lesser of the prime rate of interest from time to time published in the Wall Street Journal plus four percent per annum or the maximum rate allowed by law. The worth at the time of award of the amount referred to in (iii) shall mean such amounts as computed by reference to competent appraisal evidence or the formula prescribed by and using the Federal Reserve Discount Rate (as from time to time published in the Wall Street Journal). |
If the Lease is terminated, Landlords actual damages hereunder shall be subject to mitigation by the amount of the damages that Tenant proves in a final judicial determination would have been avoided by Landlord in the exercise of commercially reasonable efforts to relet the Leased Premises; provided that such reasonable efforts shall not require Landlord (i) to solicit or negotiate with prospective new tenants until such time as Landlord obtains full and complete possession of the Leased Premises, free of any claim to the Leased Premises or any portion thereof by Tenant and its successors, all subtenants, and other parties claiming under or through Tenant, (ii) to relet all or part of the Leased Premises
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prior to leasing any other space in the Building then available or scheduled to become available, (iii) to relet all or any part of the Leased Premises to tenants that are not high quality tenants or that would be inconsistent with Landlords leasing requirements, objectives, or plans, including without limitation the development and leasing of the Building in a harmonious manner with an appropriate mix of uses, tenants, floor areas, terms of tenancies, and the like, (iv) to expend any amounts on tenant improvements or other leasing costs in excess of the levels in Landlords budget or leasing guidelines for the Building, or (v) to offer to relet all or part of the Leased Premises at a rental rate below the rate that Landlord determines to be the prevailing market rate for the space (Tenant agreeing, however, that Landlord may in its discretion relet all or part of the Leased Premises on any terms, whether above or below such market rate or the rental rate payable hereunder, and that Tenant has no claim to any net reletting proceeds in excess of the rent payable hereunder). Tenants liability hereunder shall not be diminished or reduced if, or to the extent, that such efforts of Landlord to relet the Leased Premises are unsuccessful.
6.04 | Computation Of Rent For Purposes Of Default. For purposes of computing unpaid Rent which would have accrued and become payable under this Lease pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.03, unpaid Rent shall consist of the sum of: |
(1) | the total Net Rent for the balance of the Term, plus |
(2) | a computation of Tenants Proportionate Share of the Operating Cost and Impositions for the balance of the Term, the assumed Operating Cost for the calendar year of the default and each future calendar year in the Term to be equal to the Operating Cost for the calendar year prior to the year in which the default occurs compounded at a per annum rate equal to the mean average rate of inflation for the preceding two (2) calendar years as determined by the United State Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index (All Urban Consumers, All Items, 1967 equals 100) for the Metropolitan Area or Region of which Boston, Massachusetts is a part. If such Index is discontinued or revised, the average rate of inflation shall be determined by reference to the index designated as the successor or substitute index by the government of the United States. |
6.05 | Liquidated Damages. In lieu of the damages provided for in Section 6.03, Landlord, at its sole option, may by written notice to Tenant, at any time after this Lease is terminated pursuant to Section 6.02(a) or is otherwise terminated for breach of any obligation of Tenant, elect to recover, and Tenant shall thereupon pay, as liquidated damages, an amount equal to the aggregate of Gross Rent that would have been due for the one-year period commencing on the date of such termination (or, if lesser, the remainder of the Term), plus the amount of Gross Rent accrued and unpaid at the later of (i) the time of any such termination, or (ii) the time when Tenant vacates the Leased Premises, and less the amount of any recovery by Landlord under the provisions of Section 6.03. |
6.06 | Rights of Landlord In Bankruptcy. Nothing contained in this Lease shall limit or prejudice the right of Landlord to prove for and obtain in proceedings for bankruptcy or insolvency, by reason of the termination of this Lease, an amount equal to the maximum allowed by any statute or rule of law in effect at the time when, and governing the proceeding in which, the damages are to be proved, whether or not the amount be greater, equal to, or less than the amount of the loss or damages referred to in this Article 6. |
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6.07 | Late Charge. In addition to its other remedies, Landlord shall have the right to add to the amount of any payment required to be made by Tenant hereunder, and which is not paid on or before the date the same is due, an amount equal to the greater of (a) Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) or (b) one percent (1.0%) of the delinquency, for each month or portion thereof that the delinquency remains outstanding, the parties agreeing that Landlords damage by virtue of such delinquencies would be difficult to compute and the amount stated herein represents a reasonable estimate thereof. (Notwithstanding the foregoing, such late charge shall not apply to the first delinquency during any twelve-month period during the Term, if Tenant cures the delinquency within five (5) Business Days after written notice from Landlord.) The late charge shall be due upon demand by Landlord. Tenant shall reimburse Landlord for all costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys fees) incurred by Landlord to recover the late charges due hereunder. |
ARTICLE 7. APPRAISAL
7.01 | Appraisal Of Fair Market Rent. In the event that Tenant disputes the amount claimed by Landlord as Fair Market Net Rent, and such dispute cannot be resolved by mutual agreement, the dispute shall be submitted to the appraisal process hereinafter set forth. The amount of Fair Market Net Rent determined pursuant to such appraisal process shall be final and binding between the parties. The appraisal process shall be conducted as follows: |
(a) | Tenant shall make demand for appraisal in writing within thirty (30) days after service of Landlords determination of Fair Market Net Rent is given under the terms of this Lease (or, if later, by the date ten (10) days after Landlord gives Tenant a reminder notice as to the requirement of such demand for appraisal, which notice Landlord may give any time after the date that is fifteen (15) days after service of Landlords determination of Fair Market Net Rent), specifying therein the name and address of the person to act as the appraiser on its behalf. The appraiser shall be a real estate appraiser with at least ten years experience in the field and a qualified member of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, or any successor of such Institute (or if such organization or successor shall no longer be in existence, a recognized national association or institute of land appraisers) familiar with the fair market rent of first-class commercial office space in Comparable Buildings in Downtown Boston. Failure on the part of Tenant to make a timely and proper demand for such appraisal shall constitute a waiver of the right thereto. Within ten (10) Business Days after the service of the demand for appraisal, Landlord shall give notice to Tenant, specifying the name and address of the person designated by Landlord to act as appraiser on its behalf who shall be similarly qualified. If Landlord fails to notify Tenant of the appointment of its appraiser, within or by the time above specified, then the Tenant may thereafter send a second notice to Landlord indicating such failure and requesting Landlord to appoint such an appraiser. If Landlord fails to notify Tenant of the appointment of its appraiser within ten (10) Business Days after the giving of such second notice by Tenant then the appraiser appointed by Tenant shall be the sole appraiser to determine the issue. |
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(b) | In the event that two (2) appraisers are chosen pursuant to Section 7.01(a) above, the appraisers so chosen shall meet within ten (10) Business Days after the second appraiser is appointed and, if within ten (10) Business Days after such first meeting the two appraisers shall be unable to agree upon a determination of Fair Market Net Rent, they, themselves, shall appoint a third appraiser, who shall be a competent and impartial person with qualifications similar to those required of the first two appraisers. In the event they are unable to agree upon such appointment within five (5) Business Days after expiration of said ten (10) day period, the third appraiser shall be selected by the parties themselves, if they can agree thereon, within a further period of ten (10) Business Days. If the parties do not so agree, then either party, on behalf of both, may request appointment of such a qualified person by an officer of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board in Boston. The three (3) appraisers shall decide the dispute, if it has not previously been resolved, by following the procedure set forth in Section 7.01(c) below. |
(c) | Where the issue cannot be resolved by agreement between the two appraisers selected by Landlord and Tenant or settlement between the parties during the course of the appraisal process, the issue shall be resolved by the three appraisers in accordance with the following procedure. The appraiser selected by each of the parties shall each state in writing his determination of the Fair Market Net Rent, supported by the reasons therefor, with counterpart copies to each party. The appraisers shall arrange for a simultaneous exchange of such proposed determinations. The role of the third appraiser shall be to select which of the two proposed determinations most closely approximates his own determination of Fair Market Net Rent. The third appraiser shall have no right to propose a middle ground or any modification of either of the two proposed determinations. The determination he chooses as most closely approximating his determination shall constitute the decision of the appraisers and be final and binding upon the parties. |
(d) | This provision for determination by appraisal shall be specifically enforceable to the extent such remedies are available under applicable law, and any determination hereunder shall be final and binding upon the parties hereto, and either party shall have the right to enter judgment thereon, unless otherwise provided by applicable law. If a determination of Fair Market Net Rent is to be made pursuant to this Section 7.01, Landlord and Tenant shall each pay for the fees and disbursements of any appraiser appointed by it and shall share equally in the fees and expenses of any third appraiser. |
(e) | In the event of a failure, refusal or inability of any appraiser to act, his successor shall be appointed by him, but in the case of the third appraiser, his successor shall be appointed in the same manner as provided for appointment of the third appraiser. |
ARTICLE 8. MISCELLANEOUS
8.01 | No Waiver. Failure of Landlord or Tenant to declare any default immediately upon occurrence thereof, or delay in taking any action in connection therewith, shall not waive such default, but Landlord or Tenant, as the case may be, shall have the right to declare any such default at any time thereafter. |
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8.02 | Holding Over. In the event of holding over by Tenant after expiration or termination of this Lease without the written consent of Landlord, Tenant shall pay, for each month or partial month of hold-over tenancy, an amount equal to 150% of the greater of the Gross Rent for the month immediately preceding the end of the Term or the then fair market Gross Rent for the Leased Premises, together with such other amounts as may become due hereunder. No holding over by Tenant after the Term shall operate to extend the Term. In the event of any unauthorized holding over that continues for more than thirty (30) days, Tenant shall reimburse Landlord for all damages (including as a result of loss of a replacement tenant, provided that upon request from time to time by Tenant not earlier than six (6) months prior to the then scheduled expiration of the Term, Landlord shall notify Tenant whether Landlord has then relet all or a portion of the Leased Premises and whether Landlord will suffer adverse economic consequences as generally described in the notice if Tenant does not surrender the Leased Premises by the scheduled Term Expiration Date), losses, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys fees, incurred by Landlord by reason of such holding over. Any holding over with the consent of Landlord in writing shall thereafter constitute a lease from month to month. |
8.03 | Amendments And Modifications. This Lease may not be altered, changed or amended, except by an instrument in writing signed by both parties hereto. If in connection with obtaining financing for the Building, a bank, insurance company, pension trust or other institutional lender shall request reasonable modifications in this Lease as a condition to such financing, Tenant will not unreasonably withhold or delay its consent thereto, provided that such modifications do not increase the obligations or reduce the rights of Tenant, reduce the obligations or increase the rights of Landlord hereunder, or materially adversely affect the leasehold interest hereby created. |
8.04 | Transfers By Landlord. Landlord shall have the right to transfer and assign, in whole or in part, all of its rights and obligations hereunder in the Building and in such event and upon such transfer, no further liability or obligations shall thereafter accrue against the transferring or assigning person as Landlord hereunder. |
8.05 | Severability. If any term or provision of this Lease, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, shall to any extent be invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of this Lease, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is invalid or unenforceable, shall not be affected thereby, and each provision of this Lease shall be valid and shall be enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law. |
8.06 | Notices. All notices, demands, consents and approvals which may be or are required to be given by either party to the other hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been fully given by personal delivery, or when delivered to a nationally recognized, overnight courier service providing receipts, or when deposited in the United States mail, certified or registered, postage prepaid, and addressed to the party to be notified at the address for such party specified on the Basic Lease Information sheet, or to such other place as the party to be notified may from time to time designate by at least fifteen (15) days notice to the notifying party. Tenant hereby appoints as its agent to receive the service of all |
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default notices and notice of commencement of unlawful detainer proceedings the person in charge of or apparently in charge of or occupying the Leased Premises at the time. |
8.07 | No Joint Venture. This Lease shall not be deemed or construed to create or establish any relationship of partnership or joint venture or similar relationship or arrangement between Landlord and Tenant hereunder. |
8.08 | Successors And Assigns. This Lease shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of Landlord, its successors and assigns (subject to the provisions hereof, including, but without limitation, Section 8.04); and shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of Tenant, its successors, and to the extent assignment may be permitted as of right or approved by Landlord hereunder, Tenants assigns. |
8.09. | Applicable Law. All rights and remedies of Landlord and Tenant under this Lease shall be construed and enforced according to the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. |
8.10 | Time Of The Essence. Time is of the essence for each and every covenant of Tenant herein contained. |
8.11 | Submission Not An Option. The submission of this Lease for examination does not constitute a reservation of or option for the Leased Premises or an offer to lease, it being understood and agreed that neither Landlord nor Tenant shall be legally bound with respect to the leasing of the Leased Premises unless and until this Lease has been executed and delivered by both Landlord and Tenant. |
8.12 | Brokerage. Tenant and Landlord each warrant to the other that it has had no dealings with any broker or agent in connection with this Lease other than the broker(s) named in Basic Lease Information, and each covenants to defend (with counsel reasonably approved by the other party), hold harmless and indemnify the other party from and against any and all costs, expense or liability for any compensation, commission and charges claimed by any broker or agent (except any Brokers named in the Basic Lease Information Sheet, whose fees and expenses shall be paid in full by Landlord pursuant to a separate agreement with each such Broker) arising out of the warranting partys dealings in connection with this Lease or the negotiation thereof. |
8.13 | Waiver Of Jury Trial. Landlord and Tenant hereby waive trial by jury in any action, proceeding or counterclaim brought by either of the parties hereto against the other, on or in respect of any matter whatsoever arising out of or in any way connected with this Lease, the relationship of Landlord and Tenant hereunder, Tenants use or occupancy of the Leased Premises, and/or any claim of injury or damages. |
8.14 | All Agreements Contained. This Lease contains all of the agreements of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior dealings between them with respect to such subject matter. |
8.15 | Cumulative Remedies. The specific remedies to which Landlord may resort under the terms of this Lease are cumulative and are not intended to be exclusive of any other remedies or means of redress to which it may be lawfully entitled in case of any breach or threatened breach by Tenant of any provisions of this Lease. In addition to the other remedies provided in this Lease, Landlord shall be entitled to |
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the restraint by injunction of the violation or attempted or threatened violation of any of the covenants, conditions or provisions of this Lease or to a decree compelling specific performance of any such covenants, conditions or provisions. |
8.16 | Failure To Enforce; Accord and Satisfaction. The failure of Landlord or Tenant to seek redress for violation of, or to insist upon strict performance of any covenant or condition of this Lease, or with respect to such failure of Landlord to enforce any of the rules and regulations referred to herein, whether heretofore or hereafter adopted by Landlord, shall not be deemed a waiver of such violation nor prevent a subsequent act which would have originally constituted a violation from having all the force and effect of the original violation, nor shall the failure of Landlord to enforce any of said rules and regulations. The receipt by Landlord of Rent with knowledge of the breach of any covenant of this Lease shall not be deemed a waiver of such breach. No provision of this Lease shall be deemed to have been waived by either party, unless such waiver shall be in writing and signed by such party. No consent or waiver, express or implied, by Landlord to any breach of any agreement or duty shall be construed as a waiver or consent to or of any other breach of the same or any other agreement or duty. Unless Landlord otherwise notifies Tenant in writing, no acceptance by Landlord of a lesser sum than all Gross Rent and other charges then due shall be applied or deemed to be applied except as follows: first, to charges due under Section 6.07; and second, to the installments of Gross Rent and other charges most recently due. No endorsement or statement by Tenant on or accompanying any check or payment shall alter the application of such check or payment as set forth above. No such endorsement or statement shall be deemed an accord and satisfaction, and Landlord may accept such check or payment without prejudice to Landlords right to recover the balance of all amounts due or pursue any other remedy provided in this Lease. The delivery of keys to Landlord or to Landlords managing agent shall not operate as a termination of this Lease or a surrender of the Leased Premises. |
8.17 | Substitution. Landlord shall have the right to substitute the entire Leased Premises, which shall not be before the commencement of the third Lease Year, upon all of the following terms, covenants and condition: |
(a) | The Substituted Leased Premises (Substituted Leased Premises) must constitute space on the Boylston Street side of the Building that is on a floor not lower than the Leased Premises. The right of substitution may only be exercised if the Substituted Leased Premises designated by Landlord are similar or superior in area, configuration, and appropriateness for Tenants purposes and the substitution is made for the purpose of accommodating a tenant who will occupy the entire floor on which the Leased Premises are located. |
(b) | Landlord shall pay the entire cost of moving Tenant, its property and equipment to the Substituted Leased Premises and shall, without cost or expense to Tenant, improve the new Leased Premises with improvements substantially similar to and of the same quality and of the same standard as those located in the Leased Premises to be vacated and pay for all expenses reasonably incurred by Tenant in connection with such substitution. |
(c) | All of the other terms, covenants and conditions of the Lease shall remain unchanged and in full force and effect with respect to the Substituted Leased Premises, except that the Basic Lease Information sheet shall be revised: (i) to identify the floor of the Substituted Leased Premises; (ii) to state as the Net |
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Rentable Area the square footage of the Substituted Leased Premises as determined by Landlords architect, provided that the total Base Rent payable by Tenant shall not increase as a result of such substitution and, if the Substituted Leased Premises are smaller, Base Rent shall be payable on such smaller area; and (iii) to revise, as appropriate, Tenants Proportionate Share. |
8.18 | Notice Of Lease. Tenant agrees not to record this Lease, but on the request of either party hereto, both parties hereto shall execute and deliver (i) if appropriate, a notice of this Lease in form appropriate for recording or registration, (ii) an agreement setting forth the Term Commencement Date, (iii) a notice in form appropriate for recording or registration of any amendment of this Lease, (iv) an agreement by Tenant to make payments and give notices to whatever individual or entity shall be designated by Landlord for receiving any such notice or payment and to comply with the provisions of any assignment of rents granted to the holder of any Mortgage, and (v) if this Lease is terminated before the expiration of the Term, an instrument in form appropriate for recording or registration pursuant to which Tenant acknowledges the date of termination. If Tenant unreasonably refuses to execute any of the notices, amendments, agreements and instruments provided for in the immediately preceding sentence, within ten (10) Business Days after Landlord gives notice to Tenant requesting execution of the same, Landlord may effect such execution on behalf of Tenant as Tenants attorney-in-fact and Tenant hereby grants to Landlord an irrevocable power of attorney to execute on behalf of Tenant each such notice, amendment, agreement and instrument, which power is coupled with an interest. |
8.19 | Consents. Tenant hereby waives any claim for damages against Landlord which it may have based upon any assertion that Landlord has unreasonably withheld or unreasonably delayed any such consent or approval so long as Landlord has acted in good faith, and Tenant agrees that its sole remedy shall be an action or proceeding to enforce any such provision or for specific performance, injunction or declaratory judgment. In the event of a determination favorable to Tenant, the requested consent or approval shall be deemed to have been granted; however, Landlord shall have no liability to Tenant for its good faith refusal or failure to give such consent or approval. |
8.20 | Intentionally omitted. |
8.21 | Tenants Authorized Representative. Tenant designates the person named from time to time as Tenants Authorized Representative to take all acts of Tenant hereunder. Landlord may rely on the acts of such Tenants Authorized Representative without further inquiry or evidence of authority. Tenants Authorized Representative shall be the person so designated in Basic Lease Information and such successors as may be named from time to time by the then current Tenants Authorized Representative or by Tenants president. |
8.22 | Assignment of Rents. If at any time Landlord assigns this Lease or the rents payable hereunder to the holder of any Mortgage, whether such assignment is conditional in nature or otherwise, (i) such assignment to the Mortgagee shall not be deemed an assumption by the Mortgagee of any obligations of Landlord hereunder unless such Mortgagee shall, by written notice to Tenant, specifically otherwise elect; (ii) except as aforesaid, the Mortgagee shall be treated as having assumed Landlords obligations hereunder (subject to Section 4.13) only upon foreclosure of its mortgage (or voluntary conveyance by deed in lieu thereof) and the taking of possession of the Leased Premises and, with respect to obligations |
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regarding return of any security deposit, only upon receipt of the funds constituting such security deposit; and (iii) if Tenant alleges that Landlord is in default under this Lease, Tenant shall give the Mortgagee a copy of any notice of default served upon Landlord and, if Landlord fails to cure such default within the time provided herein or by law or such additional time as may be provided in such notice to Landlord, the Mortgagee shall have thirty (30) days after the end of Landlords cure period to cure such default (or such additional time as may be necessary to cure such default, if within such thirty day period the Mortgagee has commenced and is diligently pursuing the remedies necessary to effect such cure), in which event (except as set forth in Section 3.01(c)) Tenant shall have no right to an abatement of Rent or to terminate this Lease with respect to such default while such remedies are being diligently pursued by the Mortgagee. |
8.23 | Tenant Confirmations. Tenant represents and warrants to Landlord that (a) the person(s) executing this Lease on behalf of Tenant are duly authorized and have full power to execute and deliver this Lease, (b) Tenant has no claim, offset, or defense against the enforcement of the Lease in accordance with its terms, and (c) Tenant is not acting, directly or indirectly, for or on behalf of any person, group, entity, or nation named by any Executive Order or the United States Treasury Department as a terrorist, Specially Designated National and Blocked Person, or other banned or blocked person, group, entity, nation, or transaction pursuant to any law, order, rule, or regulation that is enforced or administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control and that it is not engaged in this transaction, directly or indirectly, on behalf of, or instigating or facilitating this transaction, directly or indirectly, on behalf of any such person, group, entity, or nation. |
ARTICLE 9. OPTIONS
9.01 | Extension Option. Tenant shall have the option to extend the Term of the Lease for one (1) additional period of five (5) years (the Extension Term), by written notice given to Landlord at least twelve (12) months before the scheduled expiration of the initial Term, on the terms set forth below (the Extension Option). Tenants notice exercising the Extension Option must be unconditional and irrevocable in order to be effective. Failure to timely deliver Tenants notice exercising the Extension Option shall constitute Tenants waiver of the Extension Option. Tenants lease of the Leased Premises during the Extension Term shall be on all of the terms and conditions of this Lease in effect on the last day of the expiring Term, except that Net Rent during the Extension Term shall be the Fair Market Net Rent as determined hereunder. Tenant shall have no option to extend the Term beyond the end of the Extension Term. Landlord may give Tenant notice of Landlords determination of the Fair Market Net Rent at any time after the date eighteen (18) months prior to the date the Extension Term is scheduled to commence and, if so requested by Tenant on thirty days prior notice, shall provide such determination no later than the date thirteen (13) months prior to the date the Extension Term is scheduled to commence. Any dispute over Fair Market Net Rent shall be resolved in accordance with Article 7. All references in this Lease to Term shall mean the initial Term as extended by any Extension Term. |
For any part of the Extension Term during which the Net Rent is in dispute hereunder, Tenant shall make payment on account of Net Rent at the rate estimated by Landlord, and the parties shall adjust for any overpayments or underpayments upon the issuance of the arbitrators decision. The failure by the parties to complete the process contemplated under this Section 9.01 prior to
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commencement of the Extension Term shall not affect the continuation of the Term or the parties obligation to make any adjustments for any overpayments or underpayments for the Net Rent due for the Extension Term promptly after the determination thereof is made.
If Tenant shall exercise the Extension Option in accordance with this Section 9.01, the provisions of this Section shall be self-operative, but upon request by either party after determination of the Net Rent for the Extension Term, the parties shall execute an agreement specifying the Net Rent for the Extension Term and acknowledging the extension of the Term.
Notwithstanding any provision of this Section to the contrary, Tenants option to extend the Term shall be void, at Landlords election, if (i) Tenant is in default hereunder, after any applicable notice and cure periods have expired, at the time Tenant elects to extend the Term or at the time the Term would expire but for such extension, or (ii) any transfer under Section 4.06 has occurred on or before either such time, other than a transfer to an Affiliate or sublease(s) covering less than half of the Leased Premises in the aggregate.
9.02 | Right of First Offer. First Offer Space shall mean all or part of the balance of the 12th floor of the Building (subject to the exclusions in Section 1.01) (which area contains, in the aggregate, the total square feet of Net Rentable Area set forth for the Expansion Premises in the Basic Lease Information Section of this Lease), which Landlord from time to time determines is available for lease to a third party, in such location and configuration as may be designated by Landlord. If Tenant does not timely exercise the Initial Expansion Right under Section 2.01(c), then Landlord shall, before entering into the next lease of any First Offer Space with a third party during the five-(5)-year period commencing on March 1, 2013 (the ROFO Period), advise Tenant of the economic and other material terms and conditions under which Landlord is willing to lease such First Offer Space to Tenant (Landlords Notice), which shall be for a term that is co-terminus with the Term of this Lease (as the same may have been extended under Section 9.01) provided that at least three (3) years remain in the Term of this Lease (as the same may have been extended under Section 9.01) after the scheduled rent commencement date for such First Offer Space. In no event shall this Section 9.02 apply to any First Offer Space available for delivery within the last three (3) years of the Term (as the same may have been extended under Section 9.01). |
Within ten (10) Business Days after a Landlords Notice is given, Tenant may, by written notice delivered to Landlord, either (a) agree to lease the First Offer Space described in Landlords Notice, in its entirety only, for Tenants own use on the terms and conditions set forth in Landlords Notice, (b) offer to lease such First Offer Space for its own use at a Net Rent rate specified in Tenants response and otherwise on the other terms and conditions set forth in Landlords Notice, or (c) decline to lease such First Offer Space. Tenants notice under clause (a) or (b) must be unconditional and irrevocable in order to be effective. The failure by Tenant to timely respond as aforesaid shall be deemed Tenants rejection of Landlords Notice under clause (c). If Tenant declines to lease such First Offer Space (or is deemed to reject Landlords Notice) as aforesaid, then Tenant shall have no further rights with respect to such First Offer Space. However, if Tenant timely offers to lease the First Offer Space in accordance with clause (b) above and Landlord does not accept such offer by Tenant, then Landlord shall deliver to
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Tenant a new Landlords Notice prior to entering into the next lease of such First Offer Space during the ROFO Period at an effective Net Rent rate (taking into account, among other things, the Net Rent rate, term length, any free rent or other financial concessions, and discount factor, all as determined by Landlord) that is equal to or less than that specified in Tenants offer.
If Tenant timely accepts Landlords Notice (or if Landlord accepts Tenants offer) for a First Offer Space under the preceding paragraph, the First Offer Space in question shall, subject to the following paragraph below and without further action by the parties, be leased by Tenant on the accepted terms and otherwise on all of the terms of the Lease in effect immediately prior to such expansion that are not inconsistent with the terms set forth in Landlords Notice, provided that, at Landlords request, Landlord and Tenant shall promptly execute and deliver an amendment to the Lease confirming such expansion of the Leased Premises, the accepted rental rate and other terms, and the estimated date on which the Leased Premises are to be expanded pursuant to this Section with a provision for establishing the effective date of such expansion based on actual delivery. If Tenant timely accepts Landlords Notice (or if Landlord accepts Tenants offer) under the preceding paragraph, Landlord shall use reasonable efforts to deliver the First Offer Space on or before the estimated delivery date, but Landlords failure to deliver, or delay in delivering, all or any part of the First Offer Space, for any reason, shall not give rise to any liability of Landlord, shall not alter Tenants obligation to accept such space when delivered, shall not constitute a default of Landlord, and shall not affect the validity of the Lease.
Notwithstanding any provision of this Section to the contrary, Tenants rights under this Section shall be void, at Landlords election, if (i) Tenant is in default hereunder, after any applicable notice and cure periods have expired, at the time Landlord would deliver a Landlords Notice to Tenant, or at the time Tenant elects to lease any First Offer Space under this Section, or at the time any First Offer Space would be added to the Leased Premises, or (ii) any assignment or sublease(s) totaling more than 5,000 square feet of the Net Rentable Area of the Leased Premises in the aggregate under Section 4.06 has been entered into prior to either such date (other than a sublease or assignment to an Affiliate or any office-sharing arrangements with Tenant Related Parties in compliance with Section 4.06), or Tenant (including its Affiliate and Tenant Related Parties under Section 4.06) otherwise does not occupy the entire Leased Premises (other than up to 5,000 square feet of Net Rentable Area) as of such date. Tenants rights under this Section are personal to the Tenant originally named in this Lease, together with any Affiliate of such Tenant to which this Lease may be assigned under Section 4.06.
ARTICLE 10. DEFINITIONS
10.01 | Definitions. Terms used herein shall have the following meanings: |
Additional Rent shall mean all monetary obligations of Tenant hereunder, other than the obligation for payment of Gross Rent.
Basic Services shall mean the services described in Section 3.01 hereof.
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Buildable Area shall mean the Net Rentable Area of the Leased Premises in question less the portion of such Net Rentable Area attributable to Building Common Areas and Common Areas.
Building shall mean the 25-story building (consisting of a 6-story low-rise portion, a 19-story high-rise portion and 3 levels of parking space below grade) located on the Land, and comprising the Office Section, the Commercial Section and common areas such as mechanical rooms, elevator machine rooms, loading dock facilities, janitor and utility rooms, electrical and communication closets and similar facilities.
Building Common Areas shall mean all areas of the Building servicing more than one floor of the Building as a whole, including, but not limited to central mechanical rooms, elevator machine rooms, pump rooms, loading dock facilities, electrical and communication rooms, postal, security and janitorial facilities and the public spaces (and if any such area is bordered by any demising wall which abuts any space that is leasable, such area shall be measured from the midpoint of such demising wall), but excluding General Common Areas and the parking garage forming part of the Building.
Building Standard Improvements shall mean the level of Tenant Improvements described on Exhibit B-2.
Business Days shall mean Monday through Friday, excluding Building holidays.
Business Hours shall mean 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. on Business Days.
Commercial Section shall mean that portion of the Building dedicated to commercial and retail uses.
Common Areas shall mean all areas on the particular floor of the Building devoted to uses such as corridors, lobbies, fire vestibules, elevator foyers, service elevator receiving areas, mailrooms, electric and communication closets and other similar facilities for the benefit of all tenant(s) or invitees on that particular floor.
Comparable Buildings in Downtown Boston shall mean comparable first-class,
high-rise office buildings in the Back Bay or financial districts of Boston.
Estimated Impositions for any calendar year shall mean Landlords estimate of Impositions for such calendar year.
Estimated Operating Cost for any calendar year shall mean Landlords estimate of Operating Cost for such calendar year.
Fair Market Net Rent shall mean the annual fair market rental value, net of Operating Cost and Impositions, for the Leased Premises for a five-year period commencing on the first date of the period for which the rent rate is being determined. In making such determination, reference may be made to transactions for comparable space in the Project and in other comparable buildings in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, in each case taking into consideration all relevant factors, including without limitation the following factors related to the Leased Premises: floor level, views, tenant improvements, proposed term of lease, free rent and other concessions, extent of services provided or to be provided, the time the particular rate under consideration became or is to become effective and any other relevant terms or conditions.
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Force Majeure shall mean any circumstance beyond the reasonable control of Landlord, including, without limitation, acts of God, acts of the public enemy, governmental interference, court orders, requisition or orders of governmental bodies or authorities, requirements under any statute, law, rule, regulation or similar requirement of a governmental authority which shall be enacted or shall arise following the date of this Lease, inability to obtain labor, insurrection, riot, civil commotion, lock-out, or any other unforeseeable event (other than the inability to obtain financing or other economic or financial concerns), the occurrence of which would prevent or preclude Landlord from fully and completely carrying out and performing its obligations under this Lease.
General Common Areas shall mean those areas forming part of the Building and devoted to non-exclusive uses which are not measured, including, but not limited to, walkways, arcades and all landscaped areas (including pools and fountains). General Common Areas shall not include any portion of the parking garage forming part of the Building.
Gross Rent shall mean, for each year of the Term, the sum of Net Rent and Tenants Proportionate Share of Estimated Operating Cost and Tenants Proportionate Share of Estimated Impositions.
Impositions shall have the meaning given in Section 2.05.
Impositions Adjustment for any calendar year shall mean the amount of the Impositions in excess of or less than the amount of Estimated Impositions.
Invitees shall mean agents, servants, employees, licensees and business invitees.
Land shall mean the parcel of real property owned by the Landlord, located in the City of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and bounded in part by Clarendon and Boylston Streets and St. James Avenue and more specifically described in Exhibit A-1 attached hereto.
Leased Premises shall mean the floor area more particularly shown on Exhibit A attached hereto, containing the Net Rentable Area specified on the Basic Lease Information sheet, but subject to relocation pursuant to Section 8.17.
Mortgage shall mean any and all mortgages securing indebtedness for money borrowed by Landlord or indebtedness for the refinancing of any such indebtedness, provided any such mortgage grants a lien on all or any portion of the Building, including all amendments and modifications thereto, from time to time. Any reference to Mortgage and Mortgagee herein shall include a sale and leaseback and the grantee-lessor of a sale and leaseback used for financing purposes.
Net Rent shall mean the annual rate set forth under Basic Lease Information.
Net Rentable Area shall mean the area or areas of the space within the Building determined as follows:
(a) | Net Rentable Area on a single tenancy floor shall consist of: |
(i) the area determined by measuring from the inside surface of the outer glass of each exterior wall (and extensions of the plane thereof in non-glass
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areas) to the inside surface of the outer glass on opposite exterior wall (and extensions of the plane thereof in non-glass areas) and shall include all areas within the outside walls, but shall exclude vertical penetrations, including without implied limitation fire stairs, elevator shafts, flues, vents, stacks, and Building Common Areas on the floor; plus
(ii) Tenants Allocation of Building Common Areas;
(b) | Net Rentable Area for a multi-tenancy floor shall consist of: |
(x) all space within the demising walls (measured from the mid-point of the demising walls; and in the case of exterior walls, measured as defined in (i) above); plus
(y) Tenants Allocation of Building Common Areas; plus
(z) Tenants Floor Share of all Common Areas.
No deductions from Net Rentable Area shall be made for columns or projections necessary to the Building, or for vertical penetrations which are for the specific use of Tenant (such as, but not limited to, special elevators or stairs, mechanical and electrical facilities and air conditioning equipment). The Net Rentable Area of the Leased Premises has been calculated on the basis of the foregoing definition and is hereby stipulated for all purposes hereof to be the amount, expressed in terms of square feet, stated on the Basic Lease Information Sheet.
Office Section shall mean that portion of the Building from to time dedicated to office uses, whether or not then leased or actually occupied by office tenants.
Operating Cost shall have the meaning given in Section 2.04.
Operating Cost Adjustment for any calendar year shall mean the amount of Operating Cost in excess of or less than the amount of Estimated Operating Cost.
Permitted Use shall mean corporate, executive and professional office use in the Leased Premises of a kind appropriate in a building of the type and quality of the Building; provided, however, that Permitted Use shall not include (a) offices of any agency or bureau of the United States or any state or political subdivision thereof; (b) offices or agencies of any foreign government or political subdivision thereof; (c) offices of any health care professionals, and offices of other service organizations serving the general public on a walk-in basis; (d) schools or other training facilities which are not ancillary to corporate, executive or professional office use; (e) retail or restaurant uses (except in the Commercial Section); (f) radio and/or television stations or other telecommunications facilities that are not primarily used for general office uses; (g) employment agency (other than corporate, professional, or executive search firms); (h) an executive suites business, a virtual office, or a similar provider or user of temporary office space, meeting rooms, and/or professional office services on a contract basis (e.g., Regus, Interactive Offices Worldwide, or similar office space provider); or (i) any use or activity which is disreputable, creates a fire hazard or would cause Landlords insurance rate to be increased.
Project shall mean the Building and, for so long as it is under common ownership or control with the Building, the adjacent building known as 222 Berkeley Street.
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Rent shall mean Gross Rent plus Additional Rent
Sublease shall include any sublease, underletting at any level, tenancy, concession, license, franchise or other arrangement providing for the use or occupancy of all or any portion of the Leased Premises. For purposes of Section 4.06, a sublease or assignment shall be deemed to further include any transfer of Tenants interest in this Lease by operation of law, merger or consolidation of Tenant into any other firm or corporation, and the transfer or sale of a controlling interest in Tenant, whether by sale of its capital stock or otherwise.
Tenant Improvements shall mean the tenant improvements installed in the Leased Premises prior to the date hereof or hereafter installed by or for Landlord or Tenant pursuant to Exhibit B or Section 4.07 of this Lease.
Tenants Allocation shall mean an area determined by multiplying the total square footage of the Building Common Areas by the ratio of the Net Rentable Area of the Leased Premises (excluding any allocation of Building Common Areas) to the Net Rentable Area of the Office Section (excluding only the Building Common Areas).
Tenants Floor Share shall mean the ratio of Tenants Buildable Area to the aggregate Buildable Area on Tenants floor.
Tenants Proportionate Share shall be adjusted from time to time to reflect the ratio which the Net Rentable Area of Leased Premises (as from time to time expanded or reduced under the terms of the Lease) bears to the greater of (i) ninety-five percent (95%) of the total Net Rentable Area of the Office Section, or (ii) the Total Leased Net Rentable Area. As provided in Section 2.03, for purposes of calculating Tenants Proportionate Share as set forth above, the total Net Rentable Area of the Office Section (as set forth in the Basic Lease Information Section) uses the same measurement methodology as was used to determine the Net Rentable Area of Leased Premises.
Term shall mean a period of calendar years, or fractions thereof, commencing with the Term Commencement Date and ending on the Term Expiration Date stated on the Basic Lease Information sheet, as the same may be extended pursuant to Section 9.01. The Scheduled Term Commencement Date stated on the Basic Lease Information sheet represents the parties estimate of the Term Commencement Date.
Term Commencement Date shall mean the date when the Term commences as determined pursuant to Section 2.01 hereof.
Term Expiration Date shall mean the date specified on the Basic Lease Information Sheet when the Term shall end, as the same may be extended pursuant to Section 9.01, unless sooner terminated pursuant to the terms of this Lease.
Total Leased Net Rentable Area shall mean the sum of the Net Rentable Area leased to all Office Section tenants over the course of a year, determined on the basis of a weighted averaging of the sum of the Net Rentable Area leased to all Office Section tenants on each day of that year.
Other terms used on the Basic Lease Information sheet which is a part of this Lease, or elsewhere in this Lease shall have the meaning given them thereon and herein.
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In WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Lease as a sealed instrument as of the day and year first above written.
Landlord: | ||||||
FIVE HUNDRED BOYLSTON WEST VENTURE, a Massachusetts joint venture | ||||||
By: | MA-500 Boylston, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company, general partner | |||||
By: | Equity Office Management, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company, its non-member manager | |||||
By: | /s/ JOHN CONLEY | |||||
Name: | John Conley | |||||
Title: | Vice President Asset Management | |||||
Tenant: | ||||||
NEWSTAR FINANCIAL, INC. | ||||||
By: | /s/ JOHN KIRBY BRAY | |||||
Name: | John K. Bray | |||||
Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |||||
Hereunto duly authorized |
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EXHIBIT A
Floor Plan
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EXHIBIT A-1
Description of Land
That certain parcel of land on the south side of Boylston Street, the east side of Clarendon Street and the north side of St. James Avenue in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, along with all buildings and other improvements thereon, shown as Lot A on a plan of land entitled 500 Boylston Street Subdivision Plan of Land in Boston, MA, Suffolk County dated 21 January 1986, revised 27 February 1986, by Survey Engineers of Boston and recorded with Suffolk Deeds at the end of Book 12397, which parcel is bounded and described according to the plan as follows:
Beginning at the northwest corner of the premises at the southeasterly corner of the intersection of Boylston and Clarendon Streets; thence running
NORTH 69 4500 EAST by Boylston Street, 322.37 feet; thence
SOUTH 20 1500 EAST by land formerly of the Mill Dam Trust and of New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, 249.97 feet to St. James Avenue; thence
SOUTH 69 4451 WEST by St. James Avenue, 322.34 feet to the northeast corner of the intersection of St. James Avenue and Clarendon Street; thence
NORTH 20 1531 WEST by Clarendon Street, 249.98 feet to the point of beginning.
Containing, according to the plan, 80,581 square feet of land, more or less.
Included within the above-described parcel are three parcels of registered land bounded and described as follows:
NORTHERLY by the southerly line of Boylston Street, 28.30 feet;
EASTERLY by land formerly of the Mill Dam Trust, 125 feet;
SOUTHERLY by land formerly of New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, 28.30 feet; and
WESTERLY by land formerly of New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, 125 feet.
This first registered parcel is shown on a plan drawn by Survey Engineers of Boston and filed with the Engineering Office of the Land Court in Boston. Massachusetts as Plan No. 2025B, being a subdivision of the land described in Suffolk Registry District Certificate of Title No. 94648 in Registration Book 469, Page 48. For Landlords title, see Book 12524, Page 230.
Second Registered Parcel
That certain parcel of land situated in said Boston, bounded and described as follows:
NORTHWESTERLY by the southeasterly line of Boylston Street, 24 feet;
NORTHEASTERLY by land now or formerly of Andrews D. Maclachlan, the line running in part through the middle of a party wall, 125 feet;
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SOUTHEASTERLY by land of New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, 24 feet; and
SOUTHWESTERLY by land now or formerly of Frederick Ayer, the line running in part through a party wall, 125 feet.
All of said boundaries are determined by the Court to be located as shown on a plan drawn by Aspinwall & Lincoln, Civil Engineers, dated May 13, 1912, as approved by the Court, filed in the Land Registration Office as Plan No. 3811A, a copy of a portion of which is filed with Certificate of Title No. 4596.
Third Registered Parcel
That certain parcel of land situated in said Boston, bounded and described as follows:
NORTHWESTERLY by the southeasterly line of Boylston Street, 72.23 feet;
NORTHEASTERLY by land now or formerly of Julius F. Fassett, the line in part running through the middle of a 12 brick party wall, 125 feet;
SOUTHEASTERLY by land of New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, 72.23 feet; and
SOUTHWESTERLY by land now or formerly of Andrew D. Maclachlin, the line in part running through the middle of a 12 brick party wall, 125 feet.
All of said boundaries are determined by the Court to be located as shown upon plan numbered 32268A which is filed with Certificate of Title No. 72280.
For title to the second and third registered parcels, see Certificate of Title No. 99537 in Registration Book 493 at Page 137.
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EXHIBIT B
Initial Improvement of the Leased Premises
B.1 Construction Documents. Tenant shall prepare, at Tenants expense (subject to reimbursement from the Tenant Work Allowance), and deliver to Landlord detailed plans and specifications (the Construction Documents) showing all Tenant Improvement work required to refurbish the Existing Subleased Premises and to prepare the Additional Premises for Tenants initial occupancy (collectively, Tenants Construction Work) subject to all of the terms and requirements set forth in the Lease. Such Construction Documents shall meet or exceed the level of Building Standard Improvements and be consistent with the level of currently existing Tenant Improvements in the Existing Subleased Premises. Landlord shall have the right to approve the Construction Documents and Tenants Contractor (which approvals shall not be unreasonably withheld) in the manner set forth in Section 4.07 of the Lease. Landlord shall review and approve (or provide comments on) the Construction Documents within seven (7) Business Days after their submission or resubmission to Landlord (or such longer period as any special features of the proposed improvements may reasonably require).
B.2 Tenant Work Allowance. Landlord shall provide Tenant with an allowance for the costs (the Allowance Costs) of construction of Tenants Construction Work (including, without limitation, architectural and engineering fees with respect thereto) in an amount not to exceed the Tenant Work Allowance set forth in the Basic Lease Information sheet. Tenant may requisition up to ten percent (10%) of the Tenant Work Allowance for design and other so-called soft costs incurred. All construction and design costs for the Leased Premises in excess of the Tenant Work Allowance shall be paid for entirely by Tenant, and Landlord shall not provide any reimbursement therefor.
The Tenant Work Allowance is sometimes referred to as the Allowance. The Allowance shall be disbursed as requisitioned by Tenant, not earlier than the Term Commencement Date and not more frequently than monthly, within thirty (30) days after requisition in accordance herewith. For each disbursement, Tenant shall submit a requisition package to Landlord, with an itemization of the costs being requisitioned, a certificate by an officer of Tenant that all such costs are Allowance Costs and have been incurred and paid for by Tenant, and appropriate back-up documentation including, without limitation, lien releases (in a form reasonably specified or approved by Landlord) and paid invoices and bills. Tenant may use up to a maximum of ten percent (10%) of the Allowance for any combination (at Tenants election by notice to Landlord) of (i) the costs of hereafter purchasing and installing furniture and equipment in the Leased Premises (including, without limitation, telecommunication wiring) and/or (ii) a credit against the Net Rent first due after the Term Commencement Date. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, Tenant shall not be entitled to any unused portion of the Tenant Work Allowance that is not requisitioned within one (1) year after the Delivery Date for the Additional Premises. Landlord shall have no obligation to disburse any portion of the Tenant Work Allowance (or to provide the aforesaid credit against Base Rent, if applicable) at any time when there exists an Event of Default under the Lease.
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B.3 Tenant Work. Tenants Construction Work and all Tenant Improvements in the Leased Premises shall be constructed by Tenant in accordance with, and subject to, the provisions of the Lease. Any structural work, to the extent (if any) required to reinforce portions of the floor of the Leased Premises for filing rooms or similar uses, shall be done with Landlords reasonable prior approval under Section 4.07, specifically including any Landlord requirements concerning access to adjacent tenant areas. Landlord shall not be responsible for any aspects of the design or construction of Tenants Construction Work or other Tenant Improvements, the correction of any defects therein, or any delays in the completion thereof. Landlord shall not charge any construction coordination management fee for Tenants Construction Work, nor be required to perform any construction coordination services with respect to such work.
B.4 Access. Tenant may perform all or parts of Tenants Construction Work (including the installation of its wiring, furniture, equipment, or personal property, and the testing of computer and other equipment prior to the conduct of business) in the Existing Leased Premises prior to or after the Term Commencement Date and in the Additional Premises after the Delivery Date under Section 2.01(b) of the Lease, subject in each case to (i) Landlords approval of Tenants plans for Tenants Construction Work, (ii) Landlords approval of Tenants Contractor, and (iii) Landlords receipt of copies of all necessary permits for the applicable portion(s) of Tenants Construction Work. Tenant shall be responsible for any damage to the Leased Premises caused by Tenant or its employees, agents, contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers and laborers.
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EXHIBIT B-1
Minimum Information Required
Floor Plans Showing:
1. | Location and type of all partitions. |
2. | Location and type of all doors - indicate hardware and provide keying schedule. |
3. | Location and type of glass partitions, windows and doors - indicate framing if not Building Standard. |
4. | Location of telephone equipment accompanied by an approval of the telephone company. |
5. | Critical dimensions necessary for construction. |
6. | Location of all Building Standard electrical items - outlets, switches, telephone outlets (Building Standard lighting will be determined by Landlords architect). |
7. | Location and type of all non-Building Standard electrical items including lighting. |
8. | Location and type of equipment that will require special electrical requirements. Provide manufacturers specifications for use and operation. |
9. | Location, weight per square foot and description of any exceptionally heavy equipment or filing system exceeding 50 psf live load. |
10. | Requirements for special air conditioning or ventilation. |
11. | Type and color of floor covering. |
12. | Location, type and color or wall covering. |
13. | Location, type and color of Building Standard and non-Building Standard paint or finishes. |
14. | Location and type of plumbing. |
15. | Location and type of kitchen equipment. |
Details Showing:
1. | All millwork with verified dimensions and dimensions of all equipment to be built in. |
2. | Corridor entrance. |
3. | Bracing or support of special walls, glass partitions, etc., if desired. If not included with the space plan, the Landlords architect will design all support or bracing required at Tenants expense. |
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EXHIBIT B-2
Building Standard Improvements
Building Standard Improvements shall consist of:
A. | Partitions |
| All walls to extend 6 above finished ceiling, except demising walls and those for conference rooms are to extend from slab to the deck above. |
| All walls to be insulated. |
| All walls to be constructed using 2 1⁄2 metal studs 24 on center with one layer 5⁄8 gypsum board on each side. |
| All walls to be primed and painted with a sufficient number of coats of latex painted to achieve proper coverage. |
B. | Doors and Hardware |
| Entrance: two (2) new, building-standard, 3-0 W x 9-0 H glass doors with building standard hardware, including door pull and magnetic lock. Card reader by Tenant, white or cream color. |
| Interior: full height, solid core, mahogany veneer doors with stained finish, with an anodized, aluminum frame, Rayco-style or equivalent, and lever handle mortise latch set hardware from the Schlage L series. |
| Back/Suite Egress: full height, solid core, mahogany veneer doors with split finish (stained on Tenant side to match interior and on multi-tenant corridor side to match other doors there) with welded, hollow metal frame, primed and painted black on common area side, and locking lever handle mortise latch set hardware from the Schlage L series. |
C. | Millwork |
| Plastic Laminate: Wilson Art, Formica or equal. |
| Coat Closet: metal coat rod and paint-grade wood hat shelf. |
D. | Glass & Glazing |
| Sidelights: 1⁄2 tempered glass with polished edges, clear silicone joints, bottom channel and clean top head detail in sheetrock soffit. |
E. | Ceiling |
| 2 x 2 x 3⁄4 thick ceiling tile, Armstrong Ultima or the like, set in a 9⁄16 bolt-slot grid system with 1⁄8 reveal, Armstrong Silhouette XL or the like. |
F. | Window Treatment |
| Horizontal aluminum one-inch, slat blinds for exterior windows. |
G. | Lighting |
| Per Massachusetts energy code of one (1) watt per square foot. |
| 2 x 2, direct/indirect, 2-lamp, florescent light fixture with anodized aluminum, perforated center basket or the like, with General Electric T-5 lamps. |
H. | Switching |
| Per Massachusetts Energy code. |
| Sensorswitch occupancy sensor model WSD-PDT in white, or equivalent. |
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I. | Power |
| 4 watts per square foot for plugs |
| Outlets: standard duplex receptacle is wall-mounted 120-volt, 20-amp, with white plastic cover plate, Leviton catalog #16352-W or equivalent. Outlet type for copier to be coordinated with Tenant. |
| Wiring: per code. |
J. | Life Safety Systems |
| Sprinklers: per Massachusetts code. Building standard specification flush ceiling mounted sprinkler heads, centered on ceiling tiles. |
| Manual fire alarm pull stations, audible (horn) and visible (strobe) fire alarm notification devices, and smoke detectors: per Massachusetts code and building standard specification Simplex devices, speaker should be white. |
| Emergency Lighting: per code. See Lighting for building standard specification. |
| Exit Signs: per code. Building standard specification edge lit, LED. |
| Spray Fireproofing: of exposed structural steel, as required, per code. |
| Fire Extinguisher: per code, with or without cabinet. |
K. | Plumbing |
| ADA Single Bowl Sink: Elkay #LRAD-2219L (1 hole). |
| Faucet: Elkay LKE4160 with all accessories. |
| Water heaters should be equipped with leak detection and auto shutdown of cold water feed. |
L. | Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning (HVAC) |
| Per Massachusetts code codes applicable to a building constructed in the late 1980s and within the parameters of the base building infrastructure, and per layout. |
| Fan-powered terminal units (FPTUs) should be specified to be Nailor with linear diffusers at perimeter and 2x2 diffusers for interior. |
| Supplemental Cooling and Exhaust Fans: by Tenant. |
M. | Telecommunications & Data (Tel/Data) |
| By Tenant. |
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EXHIBIT C
BUILDING RULES AND REGULATIONS
FOR FIVE HUNDRED BOYLSTON (THE BUILDING)
1. | The sidewalks, doorways, halls, stairways, vestibules and other similar areas shall not be obstructed or used for any purpose other than ingress to and egress from Tenants respective leased premises, and for going from one part of the Building to another part. |
2. | Plumbing fixtures shall be used only for their designated purpose, and no substances of any kind shall be deposited therein which they are not designed to handle. Damage to any such fixture resulting from misuse by any Tenant or its employees or invitees shall be repaired at the expense of such Tenant. |
3. | Signs, advertisements, graphics, or notices visible in or from public corridors shall be subject to Landlords written approval. Nails, screws, and other attachments to the Building require prior written consent from Landlord. Upon the removal of sign, notice or graphic from a building door or public corridor the Tenant is responsible for returning the surface to its original condition. |
4. | Landlord will provide and maintain an alphabetical directory board for all office tenants of the Building in accordance with each Tenants lease on the first floor (main lobby) of the Building, the size, design and location to be determined by Landlord. No other directory shall be allowed. |
5. | All contractors and technicians rendering any installation service to tenants shall be subject to Landlords approval and supervision prior to performing services. This applies to all work performed in the Building, including, (but not limited to) installation of telephone, telegraph equipment and electrical devices, windows, ceilings, and any other physical portion of the Building. |
6. | Movement in to, inside or out of the Building of furniture, office equipment, or other bulky material which requires the use of elevators, stairways, or Building entrance and lobby shall be restricted to hours established by Landlord. All such movements shall be restricted to the Buildings freight elevators. Prearrangements with Landlord should be made regarding the time, method, and routing of movement, and tenants shall assume all risks of damages to articles moved and injury to persons or public resulting from such moves. Landlord shall not be liable for any acts or damages resulting from any such activity. |
7. | Any damage to the Building by the movement of a Tenants property, or done by a Tenants property while in the Building, shall be repaired at such Tenants expense. |
8. | Landlord shall have the power to reasonably prescribe the weight and position of safes and other heavy equipment, which shall in all cases, to distribute weight, stand on supporting devices approved by Landlord. In addition, Tenants shall obtain written approval of Landlord prior to installation or subsequent relocation of any safes or heavy equipment. Tenants shall be responsible for all costs associated with said installation or relocation, including, but not limited to engineering analysis and structural changes. |
9. | All routine deliveries to the premises shall be made between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. weekdays (other than holidays) unless other arrangements are approved in advance by the Building management office, and only shall be made through the freight |
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elevators. Passenger elevators are to be used only for the movement of persons, unless an exception is approved by the Building management office. Courier use of passenger elevators shall be limited to Business Hours during Business Days unless otherwise approved by Landlord. Delivery hours are subject to change by Landlord. Tenants will adhere to any peak delivery restrictions implemented by the City of Boston. Delivery personnel/companies who do not adhere to building rules can be bared from the property by the Property Manager. |
10. | Corridor doors shall be kept closed. |
11. | Tenants shall cooperate with Landlord in maintaining their leased premises in accordance with the leases. Unless otherwise approved by Landlord office, Tenants shall not employ any person for the purpose of cleaning the leased premises other than the Buildings cleaning and maintenance personnel. |
12. | Deliveries of water, soft drinks, newspapers, or other such items to any Tenants leased premises shall be made only be suppliers approved by Landlord, and shall be restricted to hours established by Landlord and made by use of the freight elevators, if Landlord so directs. |
13. | Nothing shall be swept or thrown into the corridors, halls, elevator shafts, or stairways. No birds, fish, or animals of any kind shall be brought into or kept in, on or about any Tenants leased premises. |
14. | Restaurants excluded, no cooking shall be done in any Tenants leased premises except in connection with convenience lunch room or beverage service for employees and guests (on a non-commercial basis). All permitted cooking shall be done in a manner which complies with all of the provisions of the Tenants lease and which does not produce fumes or odors. All cooking facilities shall be subject to approval of Landlord and must be approved by all applicable state and municipal authorities. |
15. | Food, soft drink or other vending machines shall not be placed within any Tenants leased premises without Landlords prior written consent. |
16. | No Tenant shall use or keep on its leased premises any kerosene, gasoline, or inflammable or combustible fluid or material other than limited quantities reasonably necessary for the operation and maintenance of office equipment. No Tenant shall use or keep any noxious gas or substances in its leased premises, or permit its leased premises to be used in a manner offensive or objectionable to Landlord or other occupants of the Building by reason of noise, odors, or vibrations, or interfere in any way with other tenants or those having business therein. All equipment causing vibrations shall be isolated. |
17. | Office Tenants shall not tamper with or attempt to adjust temperature control thermostats in their leased premises. Landlord shall make adjustments in thermostats on call from Tenants. |
18. | Tenants shall comply with all requirements necessary for the security of their leased premises and the Building, including the use of service passes issued by Landlord for after hours movement of office equipment/packages, and signing security register in Building lobby after hours. |
19. | Landlord will furnish each Tenant with a reasonable number of initial keys for entrance doors into its leased premises, and may charge for additional keys thereafter. All such |
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keys shall remain the property of Landlord. No additional locks will be allowed on any door of any leased premises without Landlords prior written consent and Tenants shall not make any duplicate keys, except those provided by Landlord. Upon termination of this Lease, each Tenant shall surrender to Landlord all keys to its leased premises, and give to Landlord the combination of all locks for safes and vault doors, if any, in the leased premises. |
20. | Canvassing, peddling, soliciting and distribution of hand-bills in the Building are prohibited and each Tenant will cooperate to prevent these activities. |
21. | Tenants shall not make or permit any improper noises in the Building or otherwise interfere in any way with other Tenants or persons having business with them. |
22. | Landlord will not be responsible for lost or stolen personal property, money or jewelry from any Tenants leased premises or public areas, regardless of whether such loss occurs when such area is locked against entry or not. |
23. | Building emergency stairs shall only be used for emergency purposes. |
24. | Tenant will work with Landlord in informing and enforcing building delivery rules with Tenants delivery personnel, agents or invitees. |
25. | The building common areas including the garage and exterior are non smoking areas. Tenants who permit smoking within their leased premises shall control the smoke and odor so it is not offensive or does not interfere with other building Tenants. |
26. | All Tenants will cooperate with Landlord and abide with local code in the testing and servicing of the Building life safety system. |
27. | Landlord reserves the right to modify or rescind any of these rules and regulations and to make future rules and regulations required for the safety, protection, and maintenance of the Building, the operation and preservation of good order thereof, and the protection and comfort of the Tenants and their employees and their visitors. Such rules and regulations, when made and written notice given to a Tenant, shall be binding upon such Tenant as if originally herein prescribed. |
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EXHIBIT D
Letter of Credit Requirements
The letter of credit shall be for the amount specified in the Lease to which this Exhibit is attached (as renewed, replaced, and/or reduced pursuant to the Lease or this Exhibit, the Letter of Credit). The Letter of Credit (i) shall be irrevocable and shall be issued by a commercial bank reasonably acceptable to Landlord that has an office in Boston, Massachusetts, New York City, or other location approved by Landlord, (ii) shall require only the presentation to the issuer of a certificate of the holder of the Letter of Credit stating that Landlord is entitled to draw on the Letter of Credit pursuant to the terms of the Lease, (iii) shall be payable to Landlord (or its successor in interest as the Landlord upon any transfer of the Letter of Credit in accordance herewith) and shall be transferable to any such successor or any lender holding a collateral assignment of Landlords interest in the Lease, at no cost to Landlord or such transferee, (iv) shall be for an initial term of not less than one year and contain a provision that such term shall be automatically renewed for successive one-year periods unless the issuer shall, at least forty five (45) days prior to the scheduled expiration date, give Landlord notice of such nonrenewal, and (v) shall otherwise be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Landlord. In the event that the issuer ceases to be reasonably acceptable to Landlord, due to a deterioration in its financial condition or change in status that threatens to compromise Landlords ability to draw on the Letter of Credit, then Tenant shall provide a replacement Letter of Credit satisfying the terms of this Exhibit within thirty (30) days after notice of such event. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term of the Letter of Credit for the final period shall be for a term ending not earlier than the date thirty (30) days after the last day of the Term.
Landlord shall be entitled to draw upon the Letter of Credit for its full amount or any portion thereof if (a) Tenant shall fail to perform any of its obligations under this Lease after the expiration of any applicable notice and cure period (or fail to perform any of its obligations under the Lease and transmittal of a default notice or running of any cure period is barred or tolled by applicable law), or (b) not less than 30 days before the scheduled expiration of the Letter of Credit, Tenant has not delivered to Landlord a new Letter of Credit in accordance with this Exhibit. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Landlord may, but shall not be obligated to, draw on the Letter of Credit from time to time in the event of a bankruptcy filing by or against Tenant and/or to compensate Landlord, in such order as Landlord may determine, for all or any part of any unpaid rent, any damages arising from any termination of this Lease in accordance with its terms, and/or any damages arising from any rejection of this Lease in a bankruptcy proceeding commenced by or against Tenant. Landlord may, but shall not be obligated to, apply the amount so drawn to the extent necessary to cure Tenants failure to pay. Any amount drawn in excess of the amount applied by Landlord to cure any such failure shall be held by Landlord as a cash security deposit under Section 4.17 of the Lease for the performance by Tenant of its obligations under the Lease. After any such application by Landlord of the Letter of Credit or security deposit, Tenant shall reinstate the Letter of Credit to the amount originally required to be maintained under the Lease, upon demand (it being understood that such reinstatement obligation shall take into account both the then undrawn amount of the Letter of Credit and any unapplied cash security deposit then held by Landlord). If Tenant is then not in default under the Lease (after applicable notice and cure period), within thirty (30) days after the expiration or sooner termination of the Term the Letter of Credit and any security deposit, to the extent not applied, shall be returned to the Tenant, without interest.
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In the event of a sale of the Building or lease or other conveyance (each a transfer to a transferee) of the Building, Landlord shall transfer the Letter of Credit or security deposit to the transferee which succeeds to the interest of the Landlord under this Lease. Upon such transfer, the transferring Landlord shall be released by Tenant from all liability for the return of such security, and Tenant agrees to look to the transferee solely for the return of said security. The provisions hereof shall apply to every transfer or assignment made of the security to such a transferee. Tenant further covenants that it will not assign or encumber or attempt to assign or encumber the Letter of Credit or the monies deposited herein as security, and that neither Landlord nor its successors or assigns shall be bound by any assignment, encumbrance, attempted assignment or attempted encumbrance.
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EXHIBIT E
CLEANING SPECIFICATIONS
A. | Daily Services - General (after 6:00 p.m. on Business Days) |
1. | Empty trash cans. |
2. | Dust all horizontal surfaces, desks, chairs, files, telephones, picture frames, etc. Computers will not be dusted. |
3. | Damp wash and wipe dry plastic or Formica desktops free of papers. |
4. | Clean and sanitize drinking fountains. |
5. | Spot clean all windows glass, including lobby doors for fingerprints and smudges |
6. | Dust mop and spot clean all tiled areas. |
7. | Vacuum carpeted traffic areas daily, wall to wall once per week. |
B. | Daily Services - Restrooms |
1. | Remove trash and clean receptacles. |
2. | Clean and sanitize lavatories, commodes, and urinals. |
3. | Clean out corners and edges. |
4. | Clean mirrors. |
5. | Spot clean wall tile and partitions. |
6. | Replenish supplies. |
7. | Sweep floor. |
8. | Mop and disinfect floor as necessary. |
C. | Daily Services - Elevators |
1. | Clean light lenses and replace burned out bulbs. |
2. | Spot clean walls. |
3. | Clean edges, corners, and tracks. |
4. | Vacuum carpet. |
D. | Daily Services - Street Level |
1. | Sweep all marble and/or granite public areas. |
2. | Clean all glass entrance ways and side panels. |
3. | Empty all ash urns. |
4. | Spot clean marble and/or granite walls. |
5. | Dust all horizontal edges. |
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E. | Weekly Services - Stairways |
1. | Sweep from top to bottom. |
2. | Dust handrails and ledges. |
3. | Dust lights between floors. |
F. | Weekly Services - Marble/Granite Floors |
1. | Mop and/or wash all public areas. |
G. | Monthly Services - Tile Floors |
1. | Clean and wash all traffic lanes and other high wear areas. |
H. | Annual Services - General |
1. | Clean inside of all exterior windows. |
2. | Clean all fluorescent light fixture lenses. |
3. | Wash down all restroom walls and partitions. |
I. | Services as required |
1. | Spot clean carpeted areas. |
2. | Shampoo public areas outside tenant space. |
3. | Damp mop all tile floors. |
4. | Strip and recoat all tile floors. |
J. | Services - Building Exterior |
1. | Daily |
a. Police building perimeter for trash.
b. Remove trash from tree wells and planters.
K. | Services - Day Crew |
1. | Police and replenish supplies in all restrooms. |
2. | Vacuum all passenger elevators twice each day. |
3. | Clean and vacuum garage elevators. |
4. | Clean all ash urns twice each day. |
5. | Clean all glass entrance doors in main lobby. |
6. | Dust mop and/or damp mop all marble and/or granite floors in main lobby once each day. |
7. | Clean all windows on building perimeter at street level as needed. |
8. | Clean service area, hallway, and dock area. |
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PARKING ADDENDUM
Tenant shall have the right to park in the garage located within the Building a total of one (1) automobile for each three thousand (3,000) square feet of Net Rentable Area of Leased Premises, rounded to the nearest integer. If Tenant relinquishes any such parking rights during the Term, Tenant shall not be required to pay any fee or penalty for any relinquished space, shall no longer have a right to the relinquished space, and thereafter may recover use of such relinquished unreserved spaces solely upon a space-available basis. Rates charged by Landlord or its operator for such parking shall be the prevailing market rate for parking in such location as established by Landlord or its operator from time to time. Any additional spaces that Tenant may from time to time request shall be subject to then prevailing availability on a non-reserved, month-to-month basis (terminable by either party on at least thirty (30) days prior notice effective as of the end of a calendar month) at the same non-reserved rate. Tenants right to use of the parking shall be subject to (i) timely payment of the parking rate as established from time to time, (ii) such further rules and regulations as Landlord or its operator may establish from time to time, and (iii) all applicable laws, ordinances, rules and regulations.
Tenant shall encourage these spaces to be used by Multi-rider vehicles. A 10% discount will be provided on monthly parking rates for all registered carpools and vanpools.
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