Ed Barnes, vice president and general manager of Black's Guide,says the results are "temperature of what's out there" anddemonstrate that the industry is "experiencing signs of consistentgrowth after a sluggish five years."

Approximately 51% of Orlando-area respondents anticipated theiraverage current space requirement to 'increase' in the coming sixmonths. Denver had the second most positive outlook with 50% and inthird place was Tampa with 45% of respondents predicting an"increase." The two Florida cities also both also cited an increasein average space requirements over the past six months.

In all but two out of the 20 markets tested, "banking/finance"was ranked as the leading industry to have leased commercial spaceover the past six months. Washington, DC and Baltimore, both whichcited "government related" as the industry dominating theirmarkets.