Atlanta HighTech Office Highlights Q1 2012[1]
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High Technology Industry
Office Highlights
Atlanta . Q1 2012
Atlanta overview
Atlanta houses 13,000 technology companies that employ close to 250,000 workers and the industry had an in 2011 had an economic impact of $113.1 billion in sales. The metro benefits from a healthy ecosystem that includes 24 business incubator programs and world class educational institutions like Emory and Tech that collaborate on emerging innovations. Atlanta has a strong legacy in internet technology, particularly for the internet security, financial tech and healthcare IT sectors. Industry giants like IBM’s Internet Security Systems, McKesson Healthcare IT, Kimberly-Clark Healthcare IT, NCR, First Data and Global payments already call Atlanta home. From an office leasing perspective, high-tech firms have had a big impact in Atlanta, specifically so in the North Fulton and Midtown submarkets. North Fulton has been successful in luring call centers and other back office and IT operations with its aforementioned fiber-optic network, while the western edge of Midtown is the place to be for creative digital media. Many of these firms have unconventional office environments and have been drawn to the boutique loft space that has recently proliferated in redeveloped industrial space there. During the cloudy post-recessionary economic years, technology has been one of the bright spots leading the edge of the recovery for both employment growth and real estate expansion. Given Atlanta’s healthy technology infrastructure, increased demand by these users is likely to continue.
United States scorecard
Annual employment growth (Q1 2012 vs. Q1 2011)
5.2%
High-tech services High-tech IPO activity 2011 Volume
2.1%
Office-Using 2010 Volume
$8.6B
38 deals High-tech venture capital funding 2011 2010
$3.6B
27 deals
$15.3B $11.3B
Montréal
Gaming grows; Eidos expands, adds to cluster w/Ubisoft, EA, A2M
Market highlights – United States and Canada
Seattle
Amazon buys land; plans to build 3.0 million sf campus
Vancouver
Hollywood north: Sony, Pixar, Technicolor expand
Toronto
Google, Facebook, AJB Software grab more space
Boston
Tech firms squeezed out of Cambridge into Seaport
Portland
eBay, Dotster, Monsoon expand; Adobe, NetApp plan datacenters
Vancouver Seattle Montréal Portland Toronto Pittsburgh Denver San Francisco Silicon Valley Chicago Boston New York
New York
Cornell will build Roosevelt Island campus to feed high-tech industry
San Francisco
Salesforce.com,Macys.com and Riverbed lease over 800,000 sf
Chicago
‘1871 Chicago’ digital innovation center opens in Merchandise Mart
Silicon Valley
Apple expands again with 157,000 sf lease in Sunnyvale
Philadelphia Pittsburgh Baltimore More incubator offices open to Washington, attract start-ups DC
Los Angeles
YouTube going to ‘Spruce Goose’ Hercules Campus in Playa Vista
Los Angeles Orange County San Diego Austin Houston
Raleigh-Durham
Philadelphia
Tech growth focused on software for ‘eds and meds’
Atlanta
Orange County
Amazon’s a2z expanded into 82,000 sf at Irvine Spectrum
Baltimore
South Florida
Millennial Media’s stock price doubles in IPO debut
San Diego
San Diego Tech Center leases 70,000 sf to high-tech tenants
Washington DC
Tech industry growth mitigating federal workforce contraction
Denver
Micron expands in Longmont; will open engineering/design center
Austin
Apple plans $304 million campus, 3,600 new hires in Northwest
Atlanta
Multiple tech tenant expansions across the metro
South Florida
Citrix Systems expands in Cypress Creek by 40,000 sf
Raleigh-Durham
Red Hat and Cree Inc. post double digit Q1 stock price growth
LOCAL MARKETS
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Atlanta market activity
Tenants in the market
Wipro Buckhead 130,000 sf Matrix Resources Central Perimeter 45,000 sf
Annual rent growth by high-tech submarket
Silicon Valley-Mountain View San Francisco-SOMA Boston-Cambridge Seattle-Lake Union
EBEX Midtown 35,000 sf
Asurion Buckhead 25,000 sf
New York-Midtown South Vancouver-Yaletown Denver-Northwest (Boulder)
Lease comparables
SecureWorks Concourse Center VI Central Perimeter 75,000 sf Surgical Information Systems 555 Northpoint Center E North Fulton 50,000 sf
RouteMatch Software One Atlantic Center Midtown 23,000 sf Veeam Software Northwinds II North Fulton 26,000 sf
Pittsburgh-CBD Seattle-Bellevue CBD Washington DC-East End Houston-West Loop Portland-Pearl District Austin-Citywide San Diego-North Cities Montréal-Midtown
Office property clock
Current market conditions
Los Angeles-Westside Baltimore-Citywide Toronto-KWC South Florida-Miami
Peaking market Rising market
Falling market Bottoming market
Chicago-CBD Philadelphia-Citywide Raleigh-Durham-RTP/RDU Atlanta-Citywide Orange County
Metro Atlanta
-20%
0%
20%
40%
60%
*Q112 vs. Q111 full service gross overall average asking rent growth
Julia Georgules +1 415 354 6908 [email protected] One Front Street, Suite 1100 • San Francisco, CA 94111 • +1 415 395 4900 www.us.joneslanglasalle.com
Sarah Dasher +1 404 995 6531 [email protected] 3344 Peachtree Road, Suite 1200 • Atlanta, GA 30326 • +1 404 995 2100
©2012 Jones Lang LaSalle IP, Inc. All rights reserved. All information contained herein is from sources deemed reliable; however, no representation or warranty is made to the accuracy thereof.
Office Highlights
Atlanta . Q1 2012
Atlanta overview
Atlanta houses 13,000 technology companies that employ close to 250,000 workers and the industry had an in 2011 had an economic impact of $113.1 billion in sales. The metro benefits from a healthy ecosystem that includes 24 business incubator programs and world class educational institutions like Emory and Tech that collaborate on emerging innovations. Atlanta has a strong legacy in internet technology, particularly for the internet security, financial tech and healthcare IT sectors. Industry giants like IBM’s Internet Security Systems, McKesson Healthcare IT, Kimberly-Clark Healthcare IT, NCR, First Data and Global payments already call Atlanta home. From an office leasing perspective, high-tech firms have had a big impact in Atlanta, specifically so in the North Fulton and Midtown submarkets. North Fulton has been successful in luring call centers and other back office and IT operations with its aforementioned fiber-optic network, while the western edge of Midtown is the place to be for creative digital media. Many of these firms have unconventional office environments and have been drawn to the boutique loft space that has recently proliferated in redeveloped industrial space there. During the cloudy post-recessionary economic years, technology has been one of the bright spots leading the edge of the recovery for both employment growth and real estate expansion. Given Atlanta’s healthy technology infrastructure, increased demand by these users is likely to continue.
United States scorecard
Annual employment growth (Q1 2012 vs. Q1 2011)
5.2%
High-tech services High-tech IPO activity 2011 Volume
2.1%
Office-Using 2010 Volume
$8.6B
38 deals High-tech venture capital funding 2011 2010
$3.6B
27 deals
$15.3B $11.3B
Montréal
Gaming grows; Eidos expands, adds to cluster w/Ubisoft, EA, A2M
Market highlights – United States and Canada
Seattle
Amazon buys land; plans to build 3.0 million sf campus
Vancouver
Hollywood north: Sony, Pixar, Technicolor expand
Toronto
Google, Facebook, AJB Software grab more space
Boston
Tech firms squeezed out of Cambridge into Seaport
Portland
eBay, Dotster, Monsoon expand; Adobe, NetApp plan datacenters
Vancouver Seattle Montréal Portland Toronto Pittsburgh Denver San Francisco Silicon Valley Chicago Boston New York
New York
Cornell will build Roosevelt Island campus to feed high-tech industry
San Francisco
Salesforce.com,Macys.com and Riverbed lease over 800,000 sf
Chicago
‘1871 Chicago’ digital innovation center opens in Merchandise Mart
Silicon Valley
Apple expands again with 157,000 sf lease in Sunnyvale
Philadelphia Pittsburgh Baltimore More incubator offices open to Washington, attract start-ups DC
Los Angeles
YouTube going to ‘Spruce Goose’ Hercules Campus in Playa Vista
Los Angeles Orange County San Diego Austin Houston
Raleigh-Durham
Philadelphia
Tech growth focused on software for ‘eds and meds’
Atlanta
Orange County
Amazon’s a2z expanded into 82,000 sf at Irvine Spectrum
Baltimore
South Florida
Millennial Media’s stock price doubles in IPO debut
San Diego
San Diego Tech Center leases 70,000 sf to high-tech tenants
Washington DC
Tech industry growth mitigating federal workforce contraction
Denver
Micron expands in Longmont; will open engineering/design center
Austin
Apple plans $304 million campus, 3,600 new hires in Northwest
Atlanta
Multiple tech tenant expansions across the metro
South Florida
Citrix Systems expands in Cypress Creek by 40,000 sf
Raleigh-Durham
Red Hat and Cree Inc. post double digit Q1 stock price growth
LOCAL MARKETS
Jones Lang LaSalle Americas Research • High Technology Industry Office Highlights • Atlanta • Q1 2012 2
Atlanta market activity
Tenants in the market
Wipro Buckhead 130,000 sf Matrix Resources Central Perimeter 45,000 sf
Annual rent growth by high-tech submarket
Silicon Valley-Mountain View San Francisco-SOMA Boston-Cambridge Seattle-Lake Union
EBEX Midtown 35,000 sf
Asurion Buckhead 25,000 sf
New York-Midtown South Vancouver-Yaletown Denver-Northwest (Boulder)
Lease comparables
SecureWorks Concourse Center VI Central Perimeter 75,000 sf Surgical Information Systems 555 Northpoint Center E North Fulton 50,000 sf
RouteMatch Software One Atlantic Center Midtown 23,000 sf Veeam Software Northwinds II North Fulton 26,000 sf
Pittsburgh-CBD Seattle-Bellevue CBD Washington DC-East End Houston-West Loop Portland-Pearl District Austin-Citywide San Diego-North Cities Montréal-Midtown
Office property clock
Current market conditions
Los Angeles-Westside Baltimore-Citywide Toronto-KWC South Florida-Miami
Peaking market Rising market
Falling market Bottoming market
Chicago-CBD Philadelphia-Citywide Raleigh-Durham-RTP/RDU Atlanta-Citywide Orange County
Metro Atlanta
-20%
0%
20%
40%
60%
*Q112 vs. Q111 full service gross overall average asking rent growth
Julia Georgules +1 415 354 6908 [email protected] One Front Street, Suite 1100 • San Francisco, CA 94111 • +1 415 395 4900 www.us.joneslanglasalle.com
Sarah Dasher +1 404 995 6531 [email protected] 3344 Peachtree Road, Suite 1200 • Atlanta, GA 30326 • +1 404 995 2100
©2012 Jones Lang LaSalle IP, Inc. All rights reserved. All information contained herein is from sources deemed reliable; however, no representation or warranty is made to the accuracy thereof.
