Varcoe: Downtown building vacancy rate dips — ‘The dam is broken’ | Calgary Herald

but the trend, in the last few quarters, we’ve seen less space given back to landlords,” said Susan Thompson, a research manager of Avison Young in Calgary.

“For about 20 months it’s been slow, but it is really picking up now.

It’s uncertain how the pandemic will play out in the coming months and when work-for-home orders will lift.

The study notes 36 of 171 office buildings that it tracks are completely full.

For example, software company Symend took up about 79,000 square feet of office space last year for a new head office.

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