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Sublease Space Rising, But Northwest No Longer Primary Culprit

AUSTIN-The northwest submarket has shouldered the brunt of the blame for this year's mounting sublease space. That no longer is the case, according to Buls-Hodge Consulting. The northwest now accounts for 49.3% of the open space instead of 60%.

By Tim Green | Updated on December 19, 2001

AUSTIN-The economic slowdown’s ripples in Austin can almost be viewed geographically.

Consider this: The first economic shocks rumbled through the scores of Austin dot-com companies holed up in the city’s northwest submarket. As they cut back or shut down, hundreds of thousands of square feet of sublease space opened up in the northwest submarket. For a while, the northwest accounted for more than 60% of the city’s sublease space.

Now, the amount of northwest sublease space has leveled off and receded to 49.3% of the city’s sublease total, according to the Buls-Hodge report. The economic reverberations, however, are bouncing through the city’s other submarkets, where the dot-com concentration wasn’t as high as in the northwest. Those sectors are adding open sublease at a faster rate than they have been and their total has surpassed the northwest’s total. “These aren’t dot-coms that are causing this increase,” says Mike Buls of Buls-Hodge Consulting, who compiles the report. “These are different types of technology, software firms other high-tech firms.”

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