diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index be23f73..48ec6c8 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "BlockSparseArrays"
 uuid = "2c9a651f-6452-4ace-a6ac-809f4280fbb4"
 authors = ["ITensor developers <support@itensor.org> and contributors"]
-version = "0.7.16"
+version = "0.7.17"
 
 [deps]
 Adapt = "79e6a3ab-5dfb-504d-930d-738a2a938a0e"
diff --git a/src/blocksparsearrayinterface/map.jl b/src/blocksparsearrayinterface/map.jl
index 3798254..03b5ec0 100644
--- a/src/blocksparsearrayinterface/map.jl
+++ b/src/blocksparsearrayinterface/map.jl
@@ -26,14 +26,14 @@ function viewblock_stored(a::AbstractArray{<:Any,N}, I::Block{N}) where {N}
   return viewblock_stored(a, Tuple(I)...)
 end
 
-using FillArrays: Zeros
+using FillArrays: Zeros, fillsimilar
 # Get a view of a block if it is stored, otherwise return a lazy zeros.
 function viewblock_or_zeros(a::AbstractArray{<:Any,N}, I::Vararg{Block{1},N}) where {N}
   if isstored(a, I...)
     return viewblock_stored(a, I...)
   else
     block_ax = map((ax, i) -> eachblockaxis(ax)[Int(i)], axes(a), I)
-    return Zeros{eltype(a)}(block_ax)
+    return fillsimilar(Zeros{eltype(a)}(block_ax), block_ax)
   end
 end
 function viewblock_or_zeros(a::AbstractArray{<:Any,N}, I::Block{N}) where {N}