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Article: Development slows as demand fails to catch up with supply. (Real Estate Quarterly--North County).
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- October 21, 2002
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DEVELOPERS were still waiting in the third quarter for demand to catch up with supply in North Los Angeles County.
Industrial vacancy rates rose to 14.1 percent, from 11.9 percent in the previous three months. The office segment fared better with vacancies falling to 15.8 percent from 17.1 in the second quarter and 23.6 percent in third quarter 2001 according to Grubb & Ellis Co.
"When the vacancy rate drops below 10 percent, that's when we'll see construction begin, probably at the end of the year," said Jim Linn, senior vice president of Grubb & Ellis.
Industrial leasing in the Santa Clarita and Antelope valleys rose to 531,422 square feet, ...