A Look at Retail and Service Buildings
How large are they?
How do they use energy and how much does it cost?
How large are they?
Averaging 33,200 square feet, malls are slightly more than 2.5 times as large as the average commercial building. Retail buildings average 13,000 square feet, just slightly above average. Retail and service buildings combined are smaller than average (9,900 square feet). Retail (other than malls) and service buildings are among the smallest building types (7,900 square feet and 6,200 square feet, respectively).
There is 12.7 billion square feet of floorspace used for retail and service, which is 22 percent of all commercial floorspace in the U.S.
Over half of all retail and service buildings are less than 5,000 square feet; only 5 percent are over 25,000 square feet. Almost three-fourths of all retail and service buildings have only one floor.
Table 1: Number and percent of retail and service buildings and establishments per building by size category, number of floors, and type of retail or service
Continue: How many employees are there?
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CBECS Manager
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Release
date: September 11, 2000
File last modified:
January 3, 2001