What should an office leasing site lead with?

The stacking plan. Available floors, rentable area per floor, contiguous blocks and demisable divisions answer the first four questions a tenant rep has. Leading with individual suite pages instead forces them to reconstruct the stack themselves from separate listings.

Why publish test fits at multiple densities?

Because tenants think in headcount rather than area. Showing the same floor at roughly 150 and 250 square feet per person tells a prospect the range the plate absorbs, which a single rentable area figure cannot. It is the most useful single addition to most office leasing sites.

Should building constraints be published?

Yes. Column spacing, core position, ceiling height and core to window depth determine whether a plate suits a layout, and tenant reps will establish them anyway. Buildings that publish them are treated as easier to transact with, and withholding them only delays an unavoidable discovery.

Does contiguity need to be interactive?

It helps considerably. Growth drives most office moves, so letting a prospect select adjacent suites and see the combined area answers the expansion question directly. A static list of suite sizes hides contiguity that the same building could easily have demonstrated.

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September 2, 2026

Interactive Floor Plans for Office Leasing

Interactive office building stacking plan showing available floors, suite divisions and test fit layouts for prospective tenants

Office leasing runs on the stacking plan. A tenant rep wants to see which floors are available, how they can be divided, what contiguous space exists, and whether a given floor plate holds their headcount. An interactive plan for office should therefore lead with the stack, offer test fits at realistic densities, and let a prospect combine adjacent suites to test contiguity. Publishing this tends to reduce the number of speculative calls your leasing team fields.

The difference from residential is that your reader is a professional intermediary who will be measuring you against every other building in the submarket.

The stacking plan leads

Available floors, floor sizes, current tenants where disclosable and contiguous blocks are the first questions. A stack answers all four at a glance. Publishing it also filters out prospects whose requirement your building genuinely cannot serve, which is a benefit rather than a loss.

Floor by floor availability with rentable area per floor
Contiguous block identification across adjacent floors
Suite divisions shown as demisable options, not fixed facts
Test fits at two or three densities per representative floor
Ceiling height, column grid and core location on each plan

Headcount, not square footage

Tenants translate space into people. A floor described only as 14,000 rentable square feet requires the reader to apply their own density assumption. A floor shown with a test fit at 150 square feet per person and again at 250 answers the question directly and shows the range the plate can absorb. That is the single most useful addition to an office leasing site.

Let prospects combine suites

Growth is the reason most tenants move. An interface that lets someone select two adjacent suites and see the combined area and layout answers the expansion question without a phone call. It also surfaces contiguity that a static list of suite sizes hides.

Publish the constraints too

Column spacing, core position, floor to ceiling height and the depth from core to window drive whether a plate works for a given layout. Tenant reps will establish these regardless, and buildings that publish them are treated as easier to work with. Withholding them does not protect a weak plate, it just delays the discovery to a moment when it costs you more.

Where this connects to the rest of the site

Interactive plans for office pair naturally with a tour of the available space, since a plate in shell condition is difficult to imagine from a plan alone. Plan first, tour second, is the sequence most tenant reps follow.

Parking and amenities belong on the plan

Office requirements frequently die on parking ratio rather than on the space itself. If your building offers a specific ratio per thousand square feet, put it on the floor page rather than in a separate amenities section, along with loading access, after hours HVAC terms and whether the floor has its own restrooms. Tenant reps assemble these facts into a comparison grid, and a building that supplies them in one place is faster to include in a shortlist than one that requires three emails to complete the row.

Keep the stack current

An office stacking plan that shows a floor as available six months after it was leased is worse than publishing nothing, because tenant reps use it as a market reference and will notice. Assign the update to whoever maintains the rent roll rather than to marketing, and review it monthly at minimum. Buildings with a reliably current stack get included in more requirement searches, since brokers return to sources that have not wasted their time before. That reliability compounds quietly over a leasing cycle and costs almost nothing to maintain.

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