Businesses Return to High-Rise Office Towers in Orange County, California

As businesses rushed to vacate offices across Orange County that had gone dark during the pandemic, high-rise buildings bore the brunt of the impact. Tenant demand held up better for smaller, freestanding buildings and low-rise campus settings that more frequently offered free surface parking, private entrances and access to outdoor working space, rather than the parking structures, densely packed hallways and elevators inherent to taller buildings in denser office nodes.