Stephen Rothrock is a broker with Colliers International's Corporate Services Group in Seattle. He tells GlobeSt.com that from standing in the perspective of the commercial office market, he is seeing a great deal of concern by corporate tenants about the feasibility of continuing business under the threat of calamity -- natural or man made.

"It's a very big concern," says Rothrock, noting that many companies are chucking what they now believe are faulty continuity plans. In exchanges with CPARM (Contingency Planners and Resource Managers), Rothrock says he has been told more and more companies are revising their contingency plans -- especially with regard to how to preserve resources and critical operations.

Rothrock says his group at Colliers is currently conducting a study for a significant client who deemed "defunct" their continuity plan that called for relocating operations to another city in the event of disaster. Reliance on airlines went out the window when national airspace was shut down for several days following last year's terrorist attacks.