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Facility services in Palo Alto

Janitorial and facility services for Palo Alto properties.

One partner for cleaning, porter, exterior, grounds and maintenance across Palo Alto’s research and technology buildings, professional offices and more.

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Commercial property in Palo Alto

What Palo Alto research and technology buildings need.

Palo Alto’s downtown offices and research buildings are held to a high standard by tenants and visitors alike. Presentation matters as much as cleanliness.

We focus on the details that show: polished entrance glass, clean high ceilings and light fixtures, floors kept on a refinishing cycle, and porters who reset lobbies and restrooms through the day.

What we deliver

Services that fit Palo Alto

Bundle any combination under one program, one schedule and one point of contact.

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Floor care

Scrubbing, refinishing, burnishing and carpet care that protect your flooring investment.

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Why Continental

One partner.
The whole property.

One partner simplifies operations for property and facility managers and raises the standard everywhere.

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A single point of contact

One service manager coordinates every service, so you stop juggling vendors.

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Consistent standards

The same checklists and supervisor inspections at every property in your portfolio.

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Trusted teams

Background-checked crews who learn your buildings and work around your tenants.

Detail standards for boutique offices

Palo Alto’s boutique offices are small enough that every flaw shows. A smudged glass conference wall or a dusty pendant light is the first thing a client notices. Detail cleaning puts these items on a schedule: glass partitions on a frequent rotation, light fixtures and vents on a periodic cycle, baseboards and ledges on a rotating list.

A downtown office often shares a street entrance with retail. Early-morning entrance glass and walkway work keeps the shared door presentable, and the plan spells out which areas belong to the landlord and which to each tenant, so nothing falls between them.

Research buildings and campuses

Palo Alto research buildings combine offices, conference space and research areas on landscaped sites with large parking areas. A complete program covers interiors at night, porter checks of restrooms and breakrooms by day, and exterior work outside: lot sweeping, landscaping and debris cleanup that keep the grounds matching the building.

High ceilings and open atriums in these buildings gather dust overhead. High dusting on a periodic cycle clears beams, vents and fixtures, and we pair it with floor work so a space is completed in a single visit.

Medical offices and choosing a frequency

Palo Alto medical offices need waiting rooms ready before the first patient and restrooms checked between appointments. Nightly janitorial service handles the reset, and a daytime porter visit covers restrooms and lobby touch-ups during clinic hours. Practices sharing a building follow one common-area standard.

To choose a frequency, start with traffic. Busy professional and medical buildings need nightly service, and several evenings a week suit lighter offices. Floor refinishing and carpet extraction are planned by season so lobbies look their best all year. Our office building programs show how these pieces fit together.

Janitorial costs in Palo Alto

Palo Alto’s presentation standards tend to put downtown offices in the upper half of the local band, which runs $0.16 to $0.25 per square foot each month for five nights of cleaning in published 2026 figures. Research buildings with high ceilings, glass and lab-adjacent space sit at the top. Day porters bill $37 to $47 an hour. A 14,000-square-foot downtown Palo Alto office at $0.23 comes to $3,220 a month, with periodic glass and floor work listed separately.

A few useful answers

Palo Alto questions.

Do you serve research buildings in Palo Alto?

Yes. Research and office buildings on landscaped campuses are a good fit for our programs.

Can you handle detail cleaning for a boutique office?

Yes. Glass, baseboards, vents and fixtures are part of our detail work.

Do you clean medical offices in Palo Alto?

Yes, including lobbies, corridors and shared restrooms.

Can a small downtown office get the same standard as a large building?

Yes. Plan and frequency scale to the space, but the checklist and quality reviews are the same.

Can exterior work on a research campus join our interior cleaning program?

Yes. Sweeping, landscaping and pressure washing sit in the same program as your janitorial service.

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