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Downtown Fort Worth Data Dump: Why We Live Downtown, and More

May 13,2014

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Reposted from the Fort Worth Business Press

By Scott Nishimura
snishimura@bizpress.net

Downtown rental housing maintained average occupancy of 95 percent in 2013, and days on market for owner-occupied downtown housing dropped by 55 percent, Downtown Fort Worth Inc. said Tuesday in releasing its 2013 State of Downtown Report.

Downtown also increased its Class A office space inventory by 8.5 percent. And the central business district employed more than 44,000 jobs with more than $2.6 billion in private payroll.

“The amount of investment we are seeing in downtown is evidence that office users, hospitality professionals, residents, and others find downtown more attractive than ever,” Johnny Campbell, CEO of Sundance Square and DFWI executive committee member, said in a release accompanying the report.

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