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Selected Data by Type of Mercantile Building
Number of Buildings (thousand)
Percent of Buildings
Floorspace (million square feet)
Percent of Floorspace
Square Feet per Building (thousand)
 
All Mercantile Buildings
667
100
10,398
100
15.6
 
Building Activity Subcategory
Auto Dealership/Showroom
56
8
414
4
7.4
Enclosed Mall
3
0
1,681
16
606.8
Retail Store
389
58
3,929
38
10.1
Strip Shopping Center
131
20
3,950
38
30.2
Other Mercantile
88
13
423
4
4.8
Establishments per Building
Total Employees (thousand)
Employees per Building
Square Feet per Employee
Median Age of Building (years)
 
All Mercantile Buildings
2.7
11,384
17
913
36.5
 
Building Activity Subcategory
Auto Dealership/Showroom
1.1
647
11
640
18.5
Enclosed Mall
67.9
1,562
564
1,076
33.5
Retail Store
1.3
3,370
9
1,166
41.5
Strip Shopping Center
7.2
5,154
39
766
24.5
Other Mercantile
1.5
650
7
651
46.5
Total Computers (thousand)
Computers per Million Square Feet
Computers per Thousand Employees
 
All Mercantile Buildings
3,561
342
313
 
Building Activity Subcategory
Auto Dealership/Showroom
279
673
431
Enclosed Mall
337
201
216
Retail Store
1,077
274
320
Strip Shopping Center
1,421
360
276
Other Retail
Q
1,055
687
Q=Data withheld because the Relative Standard Error (RSE) was greater than 50 percent, or fewer than 20 buildings were sampled.
Source: Energy Information Administration, 1999 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey.

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