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Old Posted Feb 15, 2008, 12:55 PM
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An interesting piece of info concerning Downtown's rebound...
http://downtownexpress.com/de_250/mixeduse.html

Midtown under Downtown

The ongoing street fight between the Downtown and Midtown office markets has tipped in favor of Lower Manhattan with the recent announcement that its vacancy rates have dipped lower than its rival for the first time in over six years.

The Downtown Alliance stated in its year-end report that Lower Manhattan posted an overall availability percentage rate of 7.6 in 2007, compared to 7.7 for Midtown — besting the sub-market for the first time since Sept. of 2001. At the end of the fourth quarter last year, 184 firms had relocated to Downtown since early ’05, totaling more than 4.2 million square feet in leasing activity. Over 412,000 square feet of these relocations occurred in that final quarter, the report added.
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