Sony Pictures Imageworks will be moving its headquarters to Vancouver in spring 2015. Sony is the third major office tenant for Cadillac Fairview’s 725 Granville redevelopment project. The company, one of Hollywood’s biggest visual effects studios, will lease the entire 5th floor, which includes 71,500 square feet of office space. 725 Granville offers four levels of office space above Nordstrom’s future Canadian flagship location. At the time of this announcement, 92 per cent of the space was leased.

“Vancouver has developed into a world-class centre for visual effects and animation production,” says Randy Lake, executive vice-president and general manager at Sony Pictures Digital Productions. “It offers an attractive lifestyle for artists in a robust business climate. Expanding our headquarters in Vancouver will allow us to deliver visual effects of the highest calibre and value to our clients.”

The new office space is part of the redevelopment of the former Eatons/Sears building. The top four levels of the building are being converted to 290,000 square feet of AAA class office. Each floor has 17-foot ceilings, slab to slab, and offers 72,500 square foot floor plates, a unique feature in the downtown core.

Construction is well underway on the site. The office space is expected to open in early 2015. New retail stores on the lower level are scheduled to open in spring 2015, with Nordstrom’s planned opening in the fall.