Rent office in New Orleans

Office space for rent in New Orleans

The CBD spine: Poydras Street and St Charles Avenue

New Orleans offers 36 office units across 4 buildings, and the addresses describe the geography: 650 Poydras Street, Energy Center Building, Place St Charles and Superdome Business Center stand on or beside Poydras Street and Saint Charles Avenue, the two spines of the Central Business District. Four properties is a short list, yet it covers the New Orleans corridor running from the Superdome down toward the riverfront.

Sizes in New Orleans span 5 m² to 520 m² with a median of 65 m², so the same 4 buildings hold single-room leases and floor-scale requirements. A 65 m² median tells a tenant that most New Orleans availability is small-suite space, and that anything approaching the 520 m² ceiling will be a rare, one-of-a-kind option to be moved on quickly.

Rents cluster between $336 and $450 per m² a year

Quoted rents in New Orleans run from $336 to $450 per m² a year, with the median at $345. A 34% gap from floor to ceiling is narrow, and a median sitting almost on the floor means most of the 36 units in New Orleans are priced near the bottom of the band — $450 is the exception rather than the going rate.

What the numbers mean for a budget

Budgeting in New Orleans is a size exercise more than a rate negotiation: with the spread between $336 and $450 this tight, the cost difference between two shortlisted suites comes mostly from square metres taken. The New Orleans CBD works on streetcar lines and walking distance, which is why all 36 units sit within a few blocks of each other.