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> Amazon now occupies a mind-boggling 19 percent of all prime office space in the city I'd be more interested in how "prime" is defined here and what the perce
by noodle 9y ago
> Amazon now occupies a mind-boggling 19 percent of all prime office space in the city
I'd be more interested in how "prime" is defined here and what the percentage looks like if you include what they're presumably defining as secondary office space.
- Naritai 9y agoAnd, for that matter, if you counted all adjacent cities that would reasonably make up a metro area.
- asveikau 9y agoPrime means you get fast deliveries. ducks.. found that one hard to resist Edit: downvotes, really. what lovely, entertaining people you all must be.
- wickawic 9y agoAlso considering the fact that Amazon constructed much (most?) of its office space. But "Amazon funds 25% increase in Seattle's prime office space" isn't as interesting a headline.
- prklmn 9y agoI'd guess prime is class A office space >> http://www.boma.org/research/pages/building-class-definitions.aspx http://www.boma.org/research/pages/building-class-definition...
- mrxd 9y agoThis PDF lists figures for Seattle's Class A and B office space on the bottom of page 2: http://team.transwestern.net/Market-Research/Documents/West%20-%20Seattle%20Office%20Outlook%20-%20Q1%202017.pdf http://team.transwestern.net/Market-Research/Documents/West%... According to this, Seattle has 50.7 million square feet of Class A office space. Amazon's 8.1 million square feet is 16%. There are 53 million square feet of Class B office space.