The inner city commercial real estate sector has long been the domain of workspace, retail and hospitality – increasingly, educational institutions are looking to leverage the benefits of CBD and inner city locations to provide high quality learning environments for their staff and students. By acknowledging the potential of inner city commercial premises to accommodate a range of learning environments across early years, to vocational and post graduate study, educational organisations are able to leverage high calibre commercial properties to establish a valuable inner city campus presence. Through a series of case studies, the attributes, challenges and possibilities for these learning environments will be explored.