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Northern VA Industrial Market Suffers Slump

NORTHERN VA-Commercial Real Estate market researcher REIS, Inc. says that the tech-laden area of Northern Virginia is being hit hard by rising vacancy rates. The company expects the region's vacancy rate to increase from 7.4% in 2000, to 10.4% by year's end.

By Barbra Murray | Updated on December 05, 2001

NORTHERN VA-The situation in Northern Virginia’s industrial real estate market is grim but not fatal, according to a recent report by real estate group REIS, Inc. The organization forecasts the area’s vacancy rate to increase to 10.4% by year’s end; up from 7.4% at the end of 2000.

“We’re anticipating a lot of extra supply in this market in terms of supply versus demand,” REIS Senior Consultant Andrew Wright tells GlobeSt.com. “There’s more construction there than we’ve seen in about 10 years.” The Northern Virginia market encompasses Fairfax and Eastern Loudon counties where there has been a great deal of hi-tech industry growth over the past several years. Now the region is feeling the effects of the bottom falling out of the once booming dot.com industry.

“Demand has indeed been waning in the past few years,” Wright says. “People are deciding they don’t need as much warehouse space. That puts a softening spin on the market.” The Northern Virginia region–which sits along the I-66 and Highway 28 Corridors–comes in third behind Silicon Alley and Boston’s Route 128 Corridor on the list of the nation’s largest high-tech hubs. But area companies such as Covad and Teligent have recently scaled back, leaving the region with a slew of empty warehouses and offices.

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