The Market For Office Space In San Francisco Is Turning An Ugly Corner (twtr)

Kevin Krejci/FlickrThe rumored second round of layoffs at Twitter – which in 2011 was granted by the befuddled city of San Francisco the "Twitter tax break" on employment taxes – comes at a very inopportune moment for the glory of commercial real estate. These layoffs would amount to 8% to Twitter’s workforce, or about 300 people, according to Bloomberg. Already, Twitter has thrown 183,642 square feet of vacant office space at its two-building Mid-Market headquarters on the sublease market, thus bringing it to 1.51 million square feet (msf). This comes at a time when, according to the "snapshot" from Cushman & Wakefield, leasing activity nearly ground to a halt in the third quarter, with only 875,000 sf leased – the lowest since 2001! There was only one major lease deal over 100,000 sf: Amazon’s live streaming video platform Twitch, which took 178,000 sf.

 

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