DATA: Office and industrial vacancies continued to rise in The Woodlands area in September
Office vacancies have increased since 2019 in The Woodlands area. (Courtesy Adobe Stock)
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Retail, industrial and office vacancies continued to rise in The Woodlands area in September compared to the previous year, with the highest vacancy rate—15.2%—in office space. The amount of office and retail space available has also increased since the third quarter of 2019.
By Vanessa Holt
A resident of the Houston area since 2011, Vanessa began working in community journalism in her home state of New Jersey in 1996. She joined Community Impact Newspaper in 2016 as a reporter for the Spring/Klein edition and became editor of that paper in March 2017 and editor of The Woodlands edition in January 2019.
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