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By Sam Lubell
May 20, 2021, 5:02 a.m. ET
As visitors to the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale make their way through the broad, leafy pathways of the eventâs main exhibition space, the Giardini di Castello, they will quickly notice that one of the national pavilions is wrapped almost completely in green fabric.
Initiatives Prince George has decided against renewing two leases they have on properties in the Canada Place business centre in downtown Vancouver. The leases were for two years, and expire at the end of August.
One of the locations was in conjunction with UNBC, and served as an office for UNBC staff while in Vancouver, and, to a lesser extent, a recruitment centre.
“We expected it to be used more by employees of UNBC,” but there has been less need for the office in recent years, according to UNBC director of media and public relations Rob van Adrichem. This is in large part thanks to the advent of recent technology such as the Blackberry. With portable devices such as the Blackberry UNBC staff no longer had to stop at a computer and desk to check e-mail and make calls.
But the pandemic’s prolonged economic and workplace effects led to some businesses resorting to releasing their office spaces. Downtown’s office vacancy rate fell from 2.6% in late 2019 to 6.6% in late 2020, which is still considered low. The vacancy rate is forecast to push further upwards to 8.6% in 2021. Most of the new vacancies during this period were from smaller and older spaces.
New office projects were still pushed forward during the pandemic, with 3.8 million sq ft of office space under construction and an additional 2.6 million sq ft proposed. The first major projects from the office construction boom that began before the pandemic are scheduled for completion in 2022 and 2023, including Oxford’s The Stack at 1133 Melville Street and The Post (Amazon) at 349 West Georgia Street.