Shortage a headache for space\u002Dstarved businesses, but there are things you can do to boost the odds
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As a result, any empty pockets are commanding a premium. Average asking net rents in Vancouver hit $20.67 per square foot at the end of September, nearly $5 more than Canada’s next-priciest market, Toronto. Film and TV producers, for example, started ramping up filming at industrial sites, while up-and-coming life sciences companies and other tech darlings found the buildings to be a perfect place to set up rows and rows of data-storage servers.Article content
In addition, soil conditions in much of the region just aren’t conducive to large-scale industrial construction, Kiselbach adds. What’s more, nearly 80 per cent of that space has already been pre-leased, meaning it’s too late for most prospective tenants to get in on the action.The result is an ongoing headache for space-starved SMEs.
“A lot of times now they’re looking at projects that haven’t even started construction yet, saying, ‘OK, if I can take space in that project in a few years, I’ll commit to it now.’”
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