Gloucester / Ottawa East is a established-tier Class A submarket of Ottawa with average asking rent around C$28/sqft/yr · ≈ $20.7 PSF/yr USD.
Government services and back-office belt. · Tier: established · Avg rent: C$28/sqft/yr · ≈ $20.7 PSF/yr USD
Gloucester and Ottawa's east end anchor the federal back-office and defence procurement belt — CSIS, DND, CBSA, and Shared Services Canada tenancy dominates.
Federal back-office, defence procurement, IT shared services, professional services.
15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.
Blair, St-Laurent (O-Train Confederation Line).
Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.
Place d'Orléans, Cyrville retail, NCC Greenbelt trails.
Gloucester / Ottawa East is one of 4 Class A submarkets we cover in Ottawa, classified as established tier with an average asking rent around C$28/sqft/yr · ≈ $20.7 PSF/yr USD. Compared with the broader Ottawa Class A stock, Gloucester / Ottawa East typically attracts Federal back-office, defence procurement, IT shared services, 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 Gloucester / Ottawa East: Centretown / CBD, Kanata North (Tech Corridor), Gatineau / Hull (Quebec Side). The full Ottawa submarket atlas is at /cities/ottawa.
For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Gloucester / Ottawa East, 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 established tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.
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