Cadillac Fairview has opened the doors to its new AAA class office space at 725 Granville Street and the first tenant - Sony Pictures Imageworks – has moved in. Part of the redevelopment of the former Eatons/Sears building 725 Granville offers four floors of office space above Nordstrom’s future Vancouver location. Each floor has 17-foot ceilings, slab to slab, and offers 73,000 square foot floor plates, a unique feature not currently available in the downtown core.

Sony Pictures Imageworks will occupy a whole level of office space on the 5th floor of the building.

Microsoft will join Sony at 725 Granville later this year when they move in to their offices on the 6th and 7th floors. Law firm Miller Thomson will take occupancy of 48,000 square feet of office space on the 4th floor in early 2017.

Pacific Centre and Richmond Centre opened their doors at 7am on Black Friday to cater for early morning shoppers on the hunt for pre Christmas bargains.Cadillac Fairview (operator of both Pacific Centre and Richmond Centre) introduced a special “Fits you” platform this year, focused not only on offering great deals and promotions from top retailers but also on providing customers with a personalized fashion experience through a number of fun initiatives including:

• One-on-one sessions with professional stylists.
• The CF SHOP! App to help customers get the fashion finds they’re looking for.
• Fashion advice from Canadian fashion journalist Patricia Gajo through the CF SHOP! App and the Pacific Centre and Richmond Centre Facebook pages.
• Contest rewarding one lucky shopper in each property with a $1,000 shopping experience with a professional stylist on Black Friday.
• SHOP! CARD giveaways and in-mall “fashion spotting” on Black Friday.

With consumer and media interest in the growing popularity of Black Friday in Vancouver high both Richmond Centre and Pacific Centre attracted journalists and reporters from a number of media outlets including CBC, CTV, OMNI, The Province, Sing Tao and Ming Pao.

The latest Green Space magazine from Business in Vancouver has a great article on Cadillac Fairview's geo-exchange retrofit project in downtown Vancouver. The project, in partnership with Vancouver-based Fēnix Energy, is to undertake Canada’s first geo-exchange retrofit of an occupied, mixed-use high-rise complex in a downtown core. The retrofit is taking place at Cadillac Fairview’s 777 Dunsmuir property in Vancouver, which includes a 19-storey office tower, as well as the Holt Renfrew and Sport Chek portion of Pacific Centre.

Read the full article here.

This week's Business in Vancouver features a story on Cadillac Fairview's geo-exchange retrofit 777 Dunsmuir, which includes an office tower, as well as the Holt Renfrew and Sport Chek portions of Pacific Centre.

The issue on newsstands now.