Kanata North is a trophy-tier Class A submarket of Ottawa with average asking rent around C$32/sqft/yr · ≈ $23.7 PSF/yr USD.
Canada's largest tech cluster. · Tier: trophy · Avg rent: C$32/sqft/yr · ≈ $23.7 PSF/yr USD
Kanata North anchors Canada's largest tech cluster — Shopify, Nokia, Ericsson, Mitel, BlackBerry QNX, and a deep telecom, cybersecurity, and AI supplier ecosystem.
Tech (Shopify, Nokia, Ericsson), telecom, cybersecurity, AI, defense.
15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.
OC Transpo bus; LRT Stage 2 extension opening 2026.
Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.
Kanata Centrum, Kanata Research Park.
Kanata North is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Ottawa, classified as trophy tier with an average asking rent around C$32/sqft/yr · ≈ $23.7 PSF/yr USD. Compared with the broader Ottawa Class A stock, Kanata North typically attracts Tech (Shopify, Nokia, Ericsson), telecom, cybersecurity, AI, defense and competes most directly with the city's other trophy submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.
Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Kanata North: Downtown, Centretown, West End (Tunney's Pasture / Westboro), Gatineau / Hull. The full Ottawa submarket atlas is at /cities/ottawa.
For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Kanata North, 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:
Terminology specific to Ottawa Class A leasing and to the trophy tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.
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