DALLAS-The Metroplex’s impressive job growth has positively impacted the region’s entire office market, but the Far North Dallas submarket is “on fire,” according to Mary Stoner Yost, executive vice president with Colliers International’s local office.

“There’s a shortage of good options,” Yost says, referring to Far North Dallas submarket, which primarily consists of the office nodes along the Tollway in Plano and Frisco. She tells GlobeSt.com that she is tracking more than 100,000 square feet of demand in the Far North Dallas submarket alone.

That demand ties directly into job growth, Yost notes. In fact, the North Texas economy strengthened considerably during the first half of 2011. Employment increased by 83,100 across the Metroplex from April 2010 to April 2011, representing a 2.9% gain. The Dallas/Fort Worth unemployment rate declined to 7.7% in April 2011, from a cyclical peak of 8.5% in January and from 8.1% a year ago.