center of quotients of $C^*$ algebra

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Does there exist a non-unital $C^*$ algebra $A$ such that $\mathcal{Z}(A/I)\neq 0$,where $ \mathcal{Z}(A/I)$ denotes the center of the $A/I$.

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Of course. There are non-unital commutative C$^*$-algebras, like $C_0(\mathbb R)$. Any quotient of it will be commutative and nonzero if the ideal is non-trivial.