In Port Moody, a Vancouver suburb of roughly 35,000, industry has been scarce. Most residents work in either Vancouver or Burnaby, but Panatch Group is trying to change that by working with the municipal government.
Vancouver’s Railtown district has not seen a new commercial building constructed in around 50 years, but Rendition Developments has entered the area with Bench, a 35,050 square foot, six-storey concrete building that will have a shuttle bus to Waterfront Station on the SkyTrain.