While the region’s population growth pattern has evolved as anticipated by the regional planners, with more people now living proximate to Surrey City Centre than downtown Vancouver, the region’s distribution of office space and attendant jobs has been much slower to evolve. Specifically, Surrey City Centre has less than 2 million square feet of office space compared to the downtown Vancouver peninsula’s office inventory of over 28 million square feet. The negative social, environmental and economic implications of this imbalance are profound, and the Centre Block project is specifically targeted to address this imbalance and to advance the Surrey City Centre as a major business, education and jobs centre.

Centre Block, a 2+ million sq. ft. commercial and institutional project in Surrey City Centre will significantly advance the development of Surrey’s central business district and grow the City’s commercial tax base. SCDC led the development of a master plan for this strategically important site in partnership with Simon Fraser University and the City. The master plan can be executed in up to 4 phases, depending on the market and other factors.

This impactful development will effectively double the total office and academic space in the City Centre and will provide the critical mass necessary to establish Surrey City Centre as the region’s next business core. SCDC’s unique structure will provide it with the ability to collaborate effectively with senior levels of government (Federal and Provincial), their agencies and the private sector to accelerate this development.