Mount Pleasant & False Creek Flats is a prime-tier Class A submarket of Vancouver with average asking rent around C$48/sqft/yr · ≈ $35.5 PSF/yr USD.

  • Tech and creative submarket.
  • Prime tier — ~C$48/sqft/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Mount Pleasant & False Creek Flats, Vancouver — Class A submarket

Tech and creative submarket. · Tier: prime · Avg rent: C$48/sqft/yr · ≈ $35.5 PSF/yr USD

TL;DR

  • Tech and creative submarket.
  • Prime tier — ~C$48/sqft/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Overview

Mount Pleasant and the False Creek Flats anchor Vancouver's tech and creative office submarket — converted industrial Class A and the Emily Carr / Centre for Digital Media campus.

Tenant profile

Tech, gaming, film and visual effects, creative agencies.

Typical specification

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

Transit

Main Street-Science World (Expo Line).

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

Amenities

Olympic Village, Science World, Main Street retail.

Comparable buildings

  • The Mount
  • Great Northern Way Campus
  • Strathcona Village

Where Mount Pleasant & False Creek Flats sits in Vancouver

Mount Pleasant & False Creek Flats is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Vancouver, classified as prime tier with an average asking rent around C$48/sqft/yr · ≈ $35.5 PSF/yr USD. Compared with the broader Vancouver Class A stock, Mount Pleasant & False Creek Flats typically attracts Tech, gaming, film and visual effects, creative agencies and competes most directly with the city's other prime submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.

Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Mount Pleasant & False Creek Flats: Downtown CBD, Coal Harbour, Yaletown, Broadway Corridor. The full Vancouver submarket atlas is at /cities/vancouver.

Topic deep-dives for Mount Pleasant & False Creek Flats

For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Mount Pleasant & False Creek Flats, 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 Vancouver Class A leasing and to the prime tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.

Editorial provenance

Reviewed by Miriam Hollander — Lead market analyst. Last updated 2026-04-15. See our methodology and editorial standards.

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