Office Development in Metro Vancouver’s Urban Centres

Focusing office development in Urban Centres benefits the regional transportation system and livability in a number of ways: by supporting the development of complete communities, reducing vehicle commutes and employee transportation costs, protecting lands for other uses, complementing commercial and residential land uses, and increasing the vibrancy and success of Urban Centres. [...] The associated growth and success of Urban Centres by not providing office building inventory database has been updated for the critical mass and mix of density and activity to to the end of 2014 and supplemented with additional support other complementary uses and associated urban information. [...] The PURPOSE AND PROCESS analysis of the inventory (Chapter 2) includes reporting in terms of distribution of the inventory by location – sub- This report encourages and advances the location of office region, relative to Urban Centres, and relative to Frequent development in Metro Vancouver’s Urban Centres by Transit Network (FTN). [...] The report also includes historic exploring the factors that influence regional-scale office reporting of the pattern of office building development in development and occupancy decisions, and identifies the region over time. [...] Page 1 Office Development in Metro Vancouver’s Urban Centres 1.4 Research Questions The following section addresses questions about the state of the office market in Metro Vancouver, planning considerations, office development and tenancy issues and trends, as well as possible actions by the public and private sectors.