Place the headquarters in any heated, rent-free space, your own spare bedroom, somebody's rumpus room, or a donated second-rate office over a store building.

It also will move out of its quarters at 99 Park Avenue in Manhattan to rent-free space offered by Chemical Bank, an annual savings of $295,000.

(It should be mentioned that one of most important of these amenities is a day-care center, paid for by the developer and placed in rent-free ground-floor space.)

The developer agreed to give the American Jewish Committee rent-free space for 10 years, Mr. Harris said.

It provides rent-free space.

To lure them, developers provide rent-free space, which helps draw hundreds of smaller tenants who pay $40 and more per square foot in annual rent.

Without the philanthropy and increased access to rent-free space in public school buildings that charter networks have, independents have less money to work with and less clout.

(The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the museum, still gives it a small operating subsidy, along with rent-free space and administrative help.)

The deals made in London, Las Vegas and now Amsterdam not only include rent-free spaces.

With a $4,000 bank loan and rent-free space in a friend's Chicago office, he introduced the M. Newell Neckwear line last fall.