Casablanca Center / Downtown is a prime-tier Class A submarket of Casablanca with average asking rent around MAD 252/sqm/mo · ≈ $28.1 PSF/yr USD.

  • Heritage colonial CBD.
  • Prime tier — ~MAD 252/sqm/mo.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Casablanca Center / Downtown, Casablanca — Class A submarket

Heritage colonial CBD. · Tier: prime · Avg rent: MAD 252/sqm/mo · ≈ $28.1 PSF/yr USD

TL;DR

  • Heritage colonial CBD.
  • Prime tier — ~MAD 252/sqm/mo.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Overview

Casablanca Center and Downtown anchor the city's heritage colonial CBD — Place Mohammed V, Banque Centrale Populaire, and a deep banking, government, and trading-house tenancy.

Tenant profile

Banking, government, trading houses, professional services.

Typical specification

15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.

Transit

Casablanca Tramway, ONCF (Casa-Port).

Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.

Amenities

Place Mohammed V, Hassan II Mosque, Casa-Port.

Comparable buildings

  • BCP Tower
  • Banque Centrale Office
  • Casa-Port Office

Where Casablanca Center / Downtown sits in Casablanca

Casablanca Center / Downtown is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Casablanca, classified as prime tier with an average asking rent around MAD 252/sqm/mo · ≈ $28.1 PSF/yr USD. Compared with the broader Casablanca Class A stock, Casablanca Center / Downtown typically attracts Banking, government, trading houses, professional services and competes most directly with the city's other prime submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.

Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Casablanca Center / Downtown: Casablanca Finance City (CFC), Maarif / Twin Center, Sidi Maarouf, Mohammedia / Zenata Corridor. The full Casablanca submarket atlas is at /cities/casablanca.

Topic deep-dives for Casablanca Center / Downtown

For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Casablanca Center / Downtown, the highest-leverage analyses to commission next are the rent benchmark, the concession-package comparable, and the ESG performance baseline. Class A Atlas covers each as a dedicated topic page for this submarket:

Related glossary

Terminology specific to Casablanca Class A leasing and to the prime tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.

Editorial provenance

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