Microsoft is set to open a new additional major office location in downtown Vancouver, which will make it the fifth in the city center. The new office location will be by far Microsoft’s largest office location in Vancouver. The office will be located at the future B6 (Bentall 6) office tower at 1090 West Pender Street — the southeast corner of the intersection of Thurlow Street and West Pender Street, near SkyTrain Burrard Station.
Microsoft will occupy approximately 400,000 square feet (I37,161 square meters) across about 20 floors of this 403-feet-tall (123-meter-tall) 33-story office tower with 562,000 square feet (52,211 square meters) of premium AAA-class office space. Construction on B6 first began in 2019, and as of May 2022, it has progressed to more than half of its concrete floor plate pour, with work on the tower now reaching the 18th story. B6 is expected to reach completion sometime in the first half of 2023.
The tower was developed by BentallGreenOak, and designed by local architectural firm Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership. During the project’s design and planning phase, it was stated that the relatively large floor plate sizes — between 14,000 square feet (1,300 square meters) and 21,000 square feet (1,950 square meters)— were intentionally suitable for large companies and tech firms.
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