West End (Tunney's Pasture / Westboro) is a prime-tier Class A submarket of Ottawa with average asking rent around C$32/sqft/yr · ≈ $23.7 PSF/yr USD.

  • Federal services corridor.
  • Prime tier — ~C$32/sqft/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

West End (Tunney's Pasture / Westboro), Ottawa — Class A submarket

Federal services corridor. · Tier: prime · Avg rent: C$32/sqft/yr · ≈ $23.7 PSF/yr USD

TL;DR

  • Federal services corridor.
  • Prime tier — ~C$32/sqft/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Overview

Tunney's Pasture and Westboro anchor Ottawa's western federal services Class A corridor — Health Canada, Statistics Canada, and a deep PSPC tenant base.

Tenant profile

Federal government (Health Canada, Statistics Canada), professional services, healthcare.

Typical specification

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

Transit

Confederation Line LRT (Tunney's Pasture, Westboro).

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

Amenities

Westboro retail, Tunney's Pasture campus.

Comparable buildings

  • Tunney's Pasture Federal Campus
  • Westboro Connection
  • 1 Stafford Road

Where West End (Tunney's Pasture / Westboro) sits in Ottawa

West End (Tunney's Pasture / Westboro) is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Ottawa, classified as prime tier with an average asking rent around C$32/sqft/yr · ≈ $23.7 PSF/yr USD. Compared with the broader Ottawa Class A stock, West End (Tunney's Pasture / Westboro) typically attracts Federal government (Health Canada, Statistics Canada), professional services, healthcare and competes most directly with the city's other prime submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.

Adjacent submarkets to study alongside West End (Tunney's Pasture / Westboro): Downtown, Centretown, Kanata North, Gatineau / Hull. The full Ottawa submarket atlas is at /cities/ottawa.

Topic deep-dives for West End (Tunney's Pasture / Westboro)

For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating West End (Tunney's Pasture / Westboro), 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 Ottawa 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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