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Re:The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town by hodwik on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @01:48PM (#9924223)
The beltway has a vacancy rate of 17.1%, within the city it's 12.3%. Not that different, especially when you consider that DC has an artificially low vacancy rate due to height restrictions.

And anyway, Montgomery County, MD, is an unusual case. There was a lot of speculative building going on there due to rumors that the city of DC was going to put in a subway line through the country (going back to 2003). That dream has evaporated, with current estimates putting the project out to 2030 and later, so you have a lot of speculators left holding the bag.

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Re:The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town by jonknee on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @02:15PM (#9924456)
I would call a 40% difference in vacancy quite significant.
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Re:The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town by hodwik on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @03:39PM (#9925143)
40% of a small number is still a small number. Lightening strikes 100% more men than women.
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Re:The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @05:08PM (#9925823)
17% is not a small vacancy rate. It's a fairly high vacancy rate.
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Re:The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town by hodwik on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @11:08PM (#9927526)
I don't know where you are, but in the US that's just about average --http://m.nreionline.com/office/once-again-office-vacancy-rat...
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