Common use of Common Areas - Definition Clause in Contracts

Common Areas - Definition. Common Areas", as used herein with respect to the Shopping Center (as the same may be altered or expanded pursuant to Section 1.1), means the improvements and portions of the Shopping Center which have been designated and provided for common use by or for the benefit of more than one occupant of the Shopping Center and/or Complex, including without limitation (if and to the extent facilities therefor are provided at the time in question), the land and facilities (within or without the Complex, as provided in Article VI hereof) utilized for or as parking areas for the Shopping Center; access and perimeter roads, entrances and exits to and from the Shopping Center and Complex and to and from the public highways and streets abutting the Complex; truck passageways, loading courts, loading platforms, truck docks and truck maneuvering areas; service corridors and stairways and/or loading facilities; landscaped areas; open malls (except retail areas therein where permitted under this Lease); on-site and off-site signs identifying or advertising the Shopping Center and the Complex; exterior walks, sidewalks and arcades; skylights, stairs, stairway, elevators, escalators, ramps and any other pedestrian direction and control measures; interior corridors, arcades and balconies; directory signs and equipment; underground storm and sanitary sewers, utility lines and the like to the junction box serving one occupant exclusively, and any of the foregoing which serves the Common Areas; sprinkler systems, fire protection and security alarm systems; lockers and locker rooms, wash rooms, comfort rooms, drinking fountains, toilets and auditoriums; maintenance buildings or areas; custodial facilities; office for the marketing director to carry out the services described in Section 16.3; and other public facilities; and bus stations, taxi stands and the like, if any. It is understood that some of the facilities to fulfill Landlord's obligations under Article VI may be located outside the Shopping Center Site but within the Complex. In addition, to the extent that and so long as (but only so long as) parking spaces outside the Complex are used to provide parking to fulfill Landlord's parking obligations under Article VI of this Lease, and so long as said parking spaces outside the Complex have been designated for such purpose by Landlord, the tract of land on which such parking spaces are provided and designated and all improvements thereon shall be considered Common Areas.