Building Destinations
Andy Gloor
Sterling Bay
If the pandemic has done one thing well, it has been to encourage employees to demand work environments that are welcoming, healthy, and vibrant; offices that are compelling enough to endure the commute.
Leading companies have embraced the trend, creating destinations to lure employees back in with tech-infused offices replete with outdoor space, plenty of food options, and activity-based workspaces.
Sterling Bay pioneered this approach a decade ago, when it bought a cold storage building in Chicago’s gritty west loop and lured Google to create not only its Midwest HQ, but Sterling Bay’s beachhead in the Fulton Market district, which has defied the pandemic to become the most active submarket in the country, seemingly unscathed by the slowdown in office leasing evident elsewhere.
And at the helm: Andy Gloor, the broker turned-CEO who has found a way to build entire neighborhoods filled with the types of amenity-rich buildings that have companies lining up to happily pay a premium to occupy.
Andy shares his philosophy, thoughts on the market, and how Sterling Bay is redefining the future of the office.
