Royal Centre (Vancouver)
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Vancouver
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's Financial District
Financial District, Vancouver
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. The primary tenant of the complex is RBC
Royal Bank of Canada
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's British Columbia
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headquarters. Other clients include Spectra Energy
Spectra Energy
Spectra Energy Corp is a S&P 500 company headquartered in Houston, Texas, that operates in three key areas of the natural gas industry: transmission and storage, distribution, and gathering and processing. Spectra was formed in late 2006 from the spin-off from Duke Energy...
(formerly Westcoast Energy), and Fluor Corporation.
The tower, also known as RBC Tower or Royal Bank Tower, stands at 141 m and 37 storeys and was completed in 1973. The building is owned and managed by Brookfield Properties
Brookfield Properties
Brookfield Office Properties Inc. is a North American commercial real estate company. Brookfield Asset Management owns fifty percent of its outstanding common shares. The company has its headquarters operations in New York City and Toronto...
, a major North American commercial real estate company.
Services
There are two underground levels of retail stores in the Royal Centre complex, including a food courtFood court
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, Rexall Drug store, ICBC
ICBC
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drivers services and Staples. Royal Centre also had a 10-screen Cineplex Odeon
Cineplex Odeon
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theatre in the mall's lower retail level, which opened in 1981 and was closed and renovated in 1993 when the Royal Bank of Canada required additional space for its operations.
The complex has direct access to the Burrard
Burrard Station
Burrard Station is a SkyTrain station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, served by the Expo and Millennium Lines. The station is located in the Dunsmuir Tunnel located beneath Downtown Vancouver, and opened in 1985.-Location:...
SkyTrain
SkyTrain (Vancouver)
SkyTrain is a light rapid transit system in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. SkyTrain has of track and uses fully automated trains on grade-separated tracks, running mostly on elevated guideways, which helps SkyTrain to hold consistently high on-time reliability...
station.