COVID Publications

Occupancy Index

Updated October 15 2020

The downtown office employment cluster has been hollowed out by COVID 19. Knowing how many have returned and when will help the economic ecosystem recover, tenants to plan better and transit agencies to provide important service amendments to support the commute. The Occupancy Index by SRRA includes data submitted from three sources: tenant interviews, landlord interviews and direct data input from building managers.

Benchmarking the Return to Work - Office Employment Downtown Toronto - Worldwide review of Best Practices

September 2020 including a bi-weekly update October 5th

Toronto, London, New York and several other cities are heavily dependent on transit to re-open the core employment sectors post lockdown. Suburban office employment, dependent largely on the private vehicle have seen significant return to work. This paper has a deep look into comparable cities whose financial services sectors are reliant on transit but continue to struggle.

Re-Opening Financial District at Risk If Transit Service Reduced

Revised May 28th 2020

Discussions are now underway to facilitate the re-opening of the economy, but re-opening Toronto’s Financial District, which is central to the health of both Ontario’s and Canada’s economy, poses unique problems for decision makers because of its heavy reliance on public transit.

Quick Relief – a post-COVID opportunity to create more personal space on transit

April 2020

The impact of COVID-19 is unprecedented, but no one yet really knows or understands if, when, or how city life will return to something approaching normality. If the pandemic achieves nothing else, it will have given those Torontonians who had to step outside a unique glimpse into life without congestion. Quick Relief will provide an immediate opportunity to reduce the crushing congestion on Line 1 and 2 within months…

Future of Office Space post COVID 19

March 2020

The challenge of imagining the future of cities in a post-pandemic world has been taken up by a wide range of opinion leaders, policy makers and urban practitioners, ranging from urban planners and architects to real estate professionals, economists, and institutional lenders…