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XHIBIT
10.7.4
FIFTH AMENDMENT TO LEASE
AGREEMENT
GRE EMPIRE TOWERS
LP,
a Delaware limited
partnership
(“LANDLORD”)
AND
KAISER VENTURES,
LLC,
a Delaware limited liability
company,
p/k/a Kaiser Resources,
Inc.
(“TENANT”)
This Fifth Amendment to Lease
Agreement (“ Fifth Amendment ”), is made as of
March 16, 2009, by and between GRE EMPIRE TOWERS LP, a
Delaware limited partnership (“ Landlord ”), and
KAISER VENTURES, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, p/k/a
Kaiser Resources, Inc.(“ Tenant ”).
RECITALS
A. Landlord is the Owner of Empire
Towers I located at 3633 E. Inland Empire Boulevard, Ontario,
California (“ Building ”) and is the successor
Landlord to Empire Towers I LLC, a California limited liability
company, which was the successor Landlord to Lord Baltimore Capital
Corporation previously known as American Trading Real Estate
Properties, Inc. under that certain Lease Agreement and Addendum
thereto dated June 6, 1994 (“ Original Lease
”), amended by a First Amendment to Lease Agreement dated
May 18, 1999 (“ First Amendment ”), a
Second Amendment to Lease Agreement dated September 27, 1999
(“ Second Amendment ”), a Third Amendment to
Lease Agreement dated February 19, 2002 (“ Third
Amendment ”), and a Fourth Amendment to Lease Agreement
dated November 13, 2006 (“ Fourth Amendment
”) (collectively referred to as “ Lease
Agreement ”), for Suite 480 comprising approximately
three thousand one hundred twenty-eight (3,128) gross rentable
square feet (“ Premises ”). Tenant is the Tenant
under the Lease Agreement.
B. Landlord and Tenant desire to
further amend the Lease Agreement on the terms and conditions
provided below.
AGREEMENTS
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby
acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:
1. Incorporation of
Recitals . All of the recitals set forth above are hereby
made an integral part of this Fifth Amendment.
2. Definitions . All
capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Fifth Amendment
herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Lease
Agreement.
3. Term .
Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in the
Lease
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Agreement, including, without limitation,
Section 3.01 of the Original Lease, Section 3 of the
First Amendment, Section 3 of the Third Amendment, and
Section 3 of the Fourth Amendment, the term of the Lease
Agreement for the Premises is hereby extended for a period of
twenty-four (24) months commencing September 1, 2009 and
expiring August 31, 2011 (“ Fourth Extended Term
”).
4. Base Rent for the
Premises . The monthly Base Rent for the Demised Premises
during the Fourth Extended Term shall be as follows:
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RATE PER SQ. FT.
PER MONTH
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MONTHLY BASE RENT
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9/1/09 - 8/31/10
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$
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2.05
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$
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6,412.40
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9/1/10 - 8/31/11
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$
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2.11
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$
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6,600.08
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Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary set forth in the Lease Agreement, Base Rent during the
period from June 1, 2009, through August 31, 2009, shall
be abated in its entirety.
5. Base Taxes . As of
September 1, 2009, Base Taxes for the Demised Premises shall
mean Taxes for the calendar year 2009.
6. Base Operating Costs
. As of September 1, 2009, Base Operating Costs for the
Demised Premises shall mean Operating Costs for the calendar year
2009.
7. Tenant Improvements
. On or before September 30, 2009, Landlord shall, at
Landlord’s sole cost and expense (i) professionally
clean the existing carpeting in the Demised Premises, and
(ii) paint the Demised Premises utilizing Building Standard
paint. Other than the foregoing, Landlord shall have no obligation
to prepare the Demised Premises for Tenant’s continued
occupancy during the Fourth Extended Term.
8. Option to Extend Term
. All options to extend the term of the Lease Agreement, if
any, set forth in the Lease Agreement are hereby deleted in their
entirety, including, without limitation, Article 43 of the First
Amendment and Section 8 of the Fourth Amendment, and are
replaced by the Option to Extend the Term described in this
Section 8 of this Fifth Amendment. Provided Tenant has cured
any default of the Lease Agreement in the prescribed time and
manner described in the Lease Agreement at any time from the time
Tenant exercises the applicable option as set forth herein until
such time as such extended term commences, Tenant shall have two
(2) options to extend the term (each an “ Option
to