From Cushman Wakefield:
As the fourth quarter of 2015 came to a close, U.S. shopping center vacancy was 8.0%, unchanged from the third quarter of the year and marking the 15th consecutive quarter of steady or declining vacancy in the marketplace. Cushman & Wakefield is currently tracking over 314 million square feet (MSF) of available space in the over 3.9 billion square feet of shopping center space (including community/neighborhood, power/regional strip and lifestyle centers) across more than 65 major U.S. markets.