A serviced office is a private, lockable, furnished suite inside a managed building: one monthly figure covers the room, the desks, the internet, reception, cleaning and the meeting rooms downstairs. In Columbus all 24 business centres in our listing operate this way, which is why the market can hand over keys in days.
What a furnished suite costs
Move-in-ready private suites in the Columbus listing start at $140 a month — a 54 ft² room at 1900 Polaris Parkway and a 97 ft² room at 2323 West 5th Avenue — then step up through $150 for 86 ft² at 31 East Gay Street, $230 for 75 ft² at 20 South Third Street, and $250 for rooms of 86–151 ft² at 85 East Gay Street, 341 South 3rd Street and 20 East Broad Street. A team-sized 700 ft² suite sits near $2,750 a month at the typical rate of $2.79 per ft². The ceiling is $6.97 per ft², paid in the fitted Dublin and Brewery District buildings.
Executive suites against a conventional lease
Count what a shell lease really costs: furniture, cabling, an internet contract, a receptionist or phone system, cleaning, and three to six months of fit-out time before anyone works there. Below roughly ten people that stack rarely beats a serviced suite in Columbus, where 65 of the 182 private units are under 500 ft² and quoted monthly. Above about 3,000 ft² the arithmetic flips and a conventional lease with a landlord contribution wins.
Professional users: law, medical, consulting
Law firms concentrate downtown for proximity to the courts — 102 of the 182 private units sit in the 43215 ZIP on Gay Street, East Broad Street, North High Street and South Third Street, at $1.66–$6.50 per ft². Practices that need waiting-room frontage and easy parking usually do better on the outer ring: 6527 East Livingston Avenue ($2.37–$2.94 per ft², suites of 194–2,411 ft²), 6100 Channingway Boulevard ($2.09–$2.84, 129–1,227 ft²) and 470 Olde Worthington Road in Westerville (97–3,089 ft²) all offer suites with surface parking at the door.
What to check before signing
Ask what the rate includes after month three, whether meeting-room hours are bundled or billed from $120, how many parking spaces come with the suite, and what notice period applies. Serviced pricing is negotiable on twelve-month terms far more often than operators advertise, and the discount is usually taken off the headline monthly figure rather than added as free weeks.
Every furnished unit in the Columbus listing shows its floor, size and monthly price.