Developer Trammell Crow has signed online jobs marketplace firm Glassdoor to two full floors in the office complex it’s building on the west side of Fulton Market.
San Francisco-based Glassdoor signed a 52,000-square-foot lease in the 300,000-square-foot West End on Fulton building at 1375 West Fulton Street, the company announced Friday morning. It plans to move in when the building is completed next spring.
The recruiting and jobs review site already occupies 52,000 square feet in the Sterling Bay-built Fulton West building next-door, having expanded its lease there by about a third in March, the Chicago Tribune reported at the time. But now that it plans to more than double its Chicago employee base from 300 to 800 workers, one building won’t be enough to accommodate it.
The firm now employs about 900 people worldwide. It has identified Chicago as one of its biggest expansion targets, citing its “impressive talent pool,” Christian Sutherland-Wong told the Tribune.
Dallas-based Trammell Crow had originally planned to build apartments on the site, but company leaders said they pivoted to a 14-story office complex after seeing firms line up for space in the red-hot neighborhood. The project took a big step forward in May, when the developer secured a $94 million construction loan from CBRE Global Investors.
CBRE’s Kyle Kamin and Dan Persa represented Glassdoor in the lease, while Sara Spicklemire and Kelsey Schieve — also of CBRE — represented Trammell Crow.