Construction spending in billions o...

Construction spending in billions of circulating dollars with percent change

Office

barely a few years ago, the nation's office market was the gut-wrenching sign of all the 1980s' excesse in real estate. yet rents have been rising rapidly in chiefly suburban markets, some of which have novel development under way. Even downtown office buildings are recapturing investor interest, although growth potential in central business districts is still a not many years away. Observers who fear that novel suburban construction may overheat are looking to Atlanta this year as a barometer of the