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Walnut Creek office space listings are generally leased by the year, but the office space rental market offers other shorter term options. Some office space for lease in Walnut Creek will rent by the month and are marketed by executive office suite operators. Walnut Creek office space for rent in available executive office suites is the most flexible in the office space rental market but generally these office space listings rent at a premium compared to the traditional Walnut Creek office space rental market.

Walnut Creek is a regional business center and suburb several miles east of Oakland in Contra Costa County, California, USA, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 64,296. It serves as the commercial and entertainment hub for the neighboring cities within central Contra Costa County, and is located at the junction of the highways from Sacramento, San Jose and San Francisco/Oakland.

Walnut Creek was first known as “The Corners,” where two roads leading from Pacheco and Lafayette, California met. This Corner is now known as the Mt. Diablo Boulevard and North Main Street intersection. The first settler of the area was William Slusher, who built a dwelling on the bank of Walnut Creek, which was then known as “Nuts Creek” in 1849. Today, Walnut Creek has been routed underneath downtown through a series of tunnels starting at the southwest end of Macy’s and ending just southwest of The Cantina Restaurant. Slusher’s dwelling was built in the area of modern-day Liberty Bell Plaza.

Milo Hough of Lafayette built the hotel named “Walnut Creek House” in the corners in 1855. A blacksmith shop and a store soon joined the hotel, and a year later, Hiram Penniman (who built Shadelands Ranch) laid out the town site and realigned the Main Street of today.

In December 1862 a U.S. Post Office was established, and the community was named “Walnut Creek.” The downtown street patterns laid out by pioneer Homer Shuey on a portion of one of his family’s large cattle ranches in 1871-1872 are still present today.

On October 21, 1914, the town and the surrounding area of 500 acres (2 km²), were incorporated as the 8th city in Contra Costa County, California.

A branch line of the Southern Pacific railroad ran through Walnut Creek until the early 1960s. The mainline of the Sacramento Northern Railway also passed through Walnut Creek. Both railroads had stations here. Today, the Pittsburg-Baypoint-San Francisco line of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) serves Walnut Creek with a station adjacent to Highway 680. Access to BART makes Walnut Creek office space that much more appealing to regional employers.

Walnut Creek has recently undergone major development in its downtown area, which growing cities throughout the nation have looked to as a model. The city government has successfully attracted upscale retailers while maintaining a degree of economic diversity.