Real Estate

High on Office Space: Orange County has more office space than Phoenix. More than Baltimore. And more than San Diego.

The county’s office workers probably won’t be too surprised. It’s an astonishing fact to most of the rest of us, though, especially since by far the vast majority of the space has come in the past 20 years.

The figures are commercial broker Coldwell Banker’s. They show Orange County as the 15th largest office market in the nation with 45 million square feet as of the middle of the year.

The complete list:

1. New York: 270 million

2. Chicago: 168 million

3. Washington: 160 million

4. Los Angeles: 144 million

5. Houston: 135 million

6. Dallas: 114 million

7. N. New Jersey: 100 million

8. Boston: 82 million

9. Atlanta: 73 million

10. Philadelphia: 70 million

11. Denver: 62 million

12. San Francisco: 60 million

13. Detroit: 51 million

14. Minneapolis: 44.9 million

15. Orange County: 44.8 million

16. Seattle: 43 million

17. Phoenix: 40 million

18. Oakland: 32 million

19. San Diego: 31 million

20. Baltimore: 30 million

Source: Newport Securities