Sublease space soars across the region

A previous version of this story identified Beau Gamble as a broker for Gibbons White. He is actually a broker for Dean Callan & Co.

The amount of available office and industrial square footage more than doubled in some of the region’s markets in 2020 as the pandemic restricted in-person business, but local real estate watchers say that isn’t a sign of an impending collapse of long-term demand.

Plenty of office space

Work-from-home during the pandemic led to a lot of empty offices, and a lot of company leaders looking to get those rent obligations off their…