Cushman & Wakefield’s new D.C. central office is a company-wide experiment.
The 38,000-square-foot space at 2101 L St. NW is 20,000 square feet and a full floor smaller than its previous office in the same building. It is the first new office that Chicago-based Cushman (NYSE: CWK) has designed with lessons from Covid-19, and the $9.4 billion commercial real estate services giant plans to use these designs to inform the future of its other 400 offices and 50,000 employees.
“We want people to be proud to be here, whether it’s for chance collisions or a chance to do more career-wise,” Ryan Miller, who came aboard last year to oversee the D.C. market for Cushman, said of the new office. “It’ll be an adjustment, but we thought about how to design the space to how people are going to work and the style that’s going to help them.”
Kurt Richter and Sally Wills of Cushman negotiated the new lease with landlord JBG Smith Properties (NYSE: JBGS) and Adrian Conforti, senior managing director of…
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