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Article: Offices start to fill the spaces
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- February 18, 2008
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face=+Bold; Downtown leasing surge may signal sector's revivalface=-Bold;
By Murray McNeill
AFTER spending the last few years on the outside looking in, Winnipeg's office market may finally be joining the local real estate party.
The president of one of the city's largest commercial real estate firms -- Colliers Pratt McGarry -- said a number of leasing deals are in the works that indicate the demand for downtown office space may finally be heating up.
"I'm a little surprised the (leasing) activity hasn't been better than it's been," Wayne Pratt said in an interview, especially given Manitoba's strong economic performance over the last couple of years and all that's been going on in the ...