"You can't absorb space if there is nothing to absorb," she said.
THAT, along with the state's strong economy, added Andrew J. Merin, senior director of the Financial Services Group at the East Rutherford office of Cushman & Wakefield, has helped absorb space, spur new construction and prod rents upward.
Instead, De Cock — who, Wagner notes, "absorbs space the way you and I absorb air" — inserted his own pieces throughout the entire apartment, in some cases hanging photographs near the ceiling or the floor and making references to the art in the couple's collection.
The rate at which tenants absorb space in the area has fallen 35%, to 610,000 square feet leased in the first half of this year, from 940,000 during the same period last year.
The venue's maroon seats were cozy, and a sweeping, gold-trimmed interior welcomed attendees to sit back and look up, absorbing a space that had recently been restored to its pre-Depression opulence.
Still, based on the number of deals made in Monmouth last year, absorbing more space than any other New Jersey county in 2002, real estate people see the situation as upbeat.
MOST towns seem to think that the region can absorb the space relatively easily, however.
Until she is ensconced in that cozy, denlike space, absorbing the full force of Ms. Marzulla's love bomb, she might not realize what she is in for.
According to Gregory Van Schaack, a Hines vice president, it began making plans to construct the building at 191 North Wacker Drive in 1998 when tenants were rapidly absorbing vacant office space in downtown Chicago and no new office buildings were planned.
By converting it to the right frequency first (one of the so-called windows in the atmosphere, in which little energy is absorbed) a space-based collector could, enthusiasts claim, yield on average five times as much power as one located on the ground.The disadvantage is cost.
If the new Internet boom retains its momentum, however, service firms like law, accounting and human resources should begin absorbing some of that space.
