A report from real estate firm Avison Young shows that Calgary’s commercial vacancy rate is climbing. In the second quarter of 2015 the firm says the rate was 11.5 per cent across all commercial property types with downtown vacancies at 10.7 per cent (up from 8.3 per cent a year earlier). The report says that a scaling back of requirements by the energy sector is one factor while the new NDP provincial government’s proposals to review royalties and environmental policies is also making businesses nervous.
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