Office Percentage
The share of a unit's square footage finished as office or showroom versus open warehouse or shop space, used as a tenant-fit specification.
Definition
Office percentage (also called office ratio or office-to-warehouse ratio) measures how much of a suite is finished office, showroom, or conditioned workspace versus open industrial floor. Listings often show bands such as 10–30% office. It is a fit metric for a specific unit, not a clean boundary between asset-class labels. The same multi-tenant park can lease a 10% office contractor bay next to a 40% office showroom suite. Higher office percentage usually means more HVAC load, higher finish cost, different parking demand, and a different rent band. Lower office percentage favors vans, equipment, inventory, and shop use. When comparing spaces, match office percentage to staffing and customer-facing needs rather than treating the label on the listing as definitive.
Example
A 4,000 SF unit is listed at 25% office (1,000 SF finished front office, 3,000 SF warehouse) with a grade-level roll-up door. An HVAC contractor with two office staff and a shop crew fits. A wholesale distributor that needs almost all floor for racking passes and looks for a unit closer to 10% office.
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