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Real Estate/Development

Apr. 25, 2012

Finding space for innovation

In a bid to lure and retain high-quality commercial tenants, lawyers are increasingly drafting creative lease deals in which landlords give lessees greater leeway to redesign the buildings to their liking.


By Jason W. Armstrong


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Pac-12 Enterprises, the content and media arm of the Pac-12 Conference, was keenly interested in moving its headquarters into a 70,000-square-foot office building in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood.


But to make the lease deal pan out last year, Tony Natsis, lawyer for landlord Kilroy Realty Corp., had to convince his client to agree to let the tenant build a two-story studio wi...

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