Kensington / Sunnyside is a established-tier Class A submarket of Calgary with average asking rent around C$28/sqft/yr · ≈ $20.7 PSF/yr USD.

  • Boutique NW professional hub.
  • Established tier — ~C$28/sqft/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Kensington / Sunnyside, Calgary — Class A submarket

Boutique NW professional hub. · Tier: established · Avg rent: C$28/sqft/yr · ≈ $20.7 PSF/yr USD

TL;DR

  • Boutique NW professional hub.
  • Established tier — ~C$28/sqft/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Overview

Kensington and Sunnyside anchor Calgary's boutique northwest professional market — low-rise Class A favored by consulting, legal boutiques, and healthcare groups along Kensington Road.

Tenant profile

Consulting, legal boutiques, healthcare, 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

Sunnyside (C-Train Blue Line).

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

Amenities

Kensington Road retail, Louise Bridge, Bow River pathway.

Comparable buildings

  • Kensington Centre
  • Sunnyside Office Park
  • 1111 Kensington Road

Where Kensington / Sunnyside sits in Calgary

Kensington / Sunnyside is one of 4 Class A submarkets we cover in Calgary, classified as established tier with an average asking rent around C$28/sqft/yr · ≈ $20.7 PSF/yr USD. Compared with the broader Calgary Class A stock, Kensington / Sunnyside typically attracts Consulting, legal boutiques, healthcare, professional services and competes most directly with the city's other established submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.

Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Kensington / Sunnyside: Downtown Core, Beltline, South Calgary / Macleod Trail. The full Calgary submarket atlas is at /cities/calgary.

Topic deep-dives for Kensington / Sunnyside

For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Kensington / Sunnyside, 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 Calgary Class A leasing and to the established tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.

Editorial provenance

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