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  • Vancouver, British Columbia | Office

Airport Square

A South Vancouver office tower with strong environmental credentials.

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About the building

Built in 1975, Airport Square is a 14-story office tower in South Vancouver, conveniently located within 20 minutes of Downtown Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby and New Westminster. With 226,000 square feet of Class A office space, the building is home to a wide variety of tenants and offers an on-site gym and 460 covered parking spaces.

Investment rationale and improvement works

Having managed Airport Square since 2001 on behalf of a client, LaSalle’s investment and asset management teams were well aware of the building’s full potential when it was purchased from the client in 2017. Working with a sustainability consultancy and in-house energy and sustainability experts, LaSalle’s Canadian asset management team undertook numerous sustainability projects to improve the building’s performance.

Some of the works included:

Additionally, the asset management team engaged with tenants to encourage them to make some simple changes, such as drawing blinds at the end of each day to reduce heat gain or loss and shutting down computer monitors at the end of each workday to conserve energy.

Recognition

Airport Square achieved a LEED ‘Gold’ certification for existing buildings in April 2016 (when LaSalle was undertaking improvements on behalf of the then-owner) and was recognized as one of the first-ever ENERGY STAR® Canada Building Certification certified office buildings in Canada. The ENERGY STAR® distinction signifies that the property performs in the top 25% of similar facilities nationwide for energy efficiency and meets strict energy efficiency performance levels set by Canada’s Office of Energy Efficiency.

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Airport Square is part of the LaSalle Canada Property Fund portfolio

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Important information

The assets presented are meant for illustrative purposes only, are subject to change without notice and are not meant as a projection or estimate of the nature of any future investments to be made by the Fund or returns on any such investments. This information has been prepared by LaSalle in order to illustrate the type of assets held and/or transactions completed by the Fund; transactions for properties exhibiting the same or similar characteristics may not be available or profitable in the future.

Important information about sustainability

A decision to invest should consider all characteristics or objectives disclosed in the offering document. Please refer to the offering document before making any final investment decision.

Except where specified either in this webpage or any other documents, any ESG or impact goals, targets, commitments, incentives, initiatives or outcomes referenced in any information, reporting or disclosures published by LaSalle are not being marketed to investors or promoted and do not bind any investment decisions made in respect of, or the management or stewardship of, any funds managed by LaSalle for the purposes of Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 on sustainability-related disclosures in the financial services sector. Any measures in respect of such ESG or impact goals, targets, commitments, incentives, initiatives or outcomes may be overridden, may not be implemented or may not be immediately applicable to the investments of any funds managed by LaSalle (in each case, at LaSalle’s sole discretion).