# Microsoft Canada moving to CIBC Square

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2018-09-12

architecture, cibc-square, downtown-toronto, lease, lease-deal, microsoft, park, rail, southcore, tenant, tenant-relocation, tod, toronto, transit, transit-oriented-development, uncategorized, union-station, urbanism, wilkinsoneyre

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Today, Microsoft [announced](https://renx.ca/microsoft-moving-canadian-hq-torontos-cibc-square/) that it will be moving its Canadian headquarters from Mississauga to the new [CIBC Square](http://www.wilkinsoneyre.com/projects/cibc-square-toronto) development that is currently under construction in downtown Toronto (and rendered above). 

According to [RENX](https://renx.ca/microsoft-moving-canadian-hq-torontos-cibc-square/), Microsoft will occupy 132,000 square feet across 4 floors in the first tower. Occupancy is scheduled for September 2020.

I love this project. The design architect is [WilkinsonEyre](http://www.wilkinsoneyre.com/projects/cibc-square-toronto). And there’s going to be an elevated one-acre park spanning the rail corridor between the project’s two towers.

But it’s also noteworthy because it is an example of a major suburban tenant deciding to relocate to a transit-oriented urban environment. (I have a post on this somewhere.) 

_Image:_ [_WilkinsonEyre_](http://www.wilkinsoneyre.com/projects/cibc-square-toronto)

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/microsoft-canada-moving-to-cibc-square)*