Skender Begins Buildout for Upwork Expansion

Skender has started construction on a 34,000-square-foot expansion to Upwork’s current space at AEW Capital Management’s 525 W. Van Buren in the West Loop. The initial buildout of Upwork’s space for roughly half the 67,730 square feet it leased from AEW was completed in December 2018.

Online freelance marketplace Upwork has been rapidly expanding its presence locally since moving into its current space, and is expected to grow its Chicago workforce to 346 employees by the end of 2020. The expanded space will provide a day-one occupancy of up to 204 employees with infrastructure to expand to 250 workstations.

This phase of construction incorporates an open-office concept for workstations with technology-rich meeting areas, an all-hands meeting space and café, server room, large training room and collaboration/breakout space. Skender is collaborating with architecture/engineering firm CannonDesign and tenant representative Cresa to complete the project by the end of April.

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