The City of Calgary says it has reached the halfway mark in its ambitious plan to remove six million square feet of vacant downtown office space by 2031, unveiling more details about nine new office-to-residential conversion projects.

The program, launched to tackle Calgary’s stubbornly high downtown vacancy rate, has already transformed six former office towers into nearly 500 new homes and more than 200 hotel rooms.

Now, the city is looking to build on that momentum with nine additional projects, part of 21 conversions currently supported under the initiative that’s expected to add more than 2,600 new homes to Calgary’s core.

For tenants like Sebastian Villarroel, the program has already made a difference. Villarroel, who recently moved into a three-bedroom apartment in a converted of

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