Even so, office vacancy rates, while still high at roughly 20 percent, are finally starting to drop.

The national office vacancy rate currently is 19.4 percent, or nearly 500 million square feet of space.

With little new construction, office vacancy rates have remained low.

They have also raised the city's office vacancy rate to 22 percent, a record.

Further, office vacancy rates were not as high as those in the past.

The city's office vacancy rate is now about 7 percent.

And she said there are signs that, even with the high office vacancy rate, little has changed.

The office vacancy rate, after a number of bad years, finally dropped.

In 2000, Norfolk's office vacancy rate was well below 10%.

By some estimates, it also has the highest office vacancy rate in the northern part of the state.