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It appears to me building common is a designation originated for identifying space in a multi-tenant building which is available to all tenants. If the building is 100% owned by one tenant, would one categorize just the elevator lobbies in upper floors as building common or if conference rooms in upper floors are available to all, would they then be categorized as building common or floor common?
Hi Judy,
If you are applying the BOMA 2017 Office Standard to a single tenant building, there is no difference to how the Space Classification are allocated compared to a multi-tenanted building. The tenant will simply receive 100% of the common area allocations / Load Factor.
Thanks,
David