Cushman & Wakefield Makes Strategic Investment of $150 Million in WeWork
Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) announced a strategic investment of $150 million in WeWork (NYSE: WE) on October 20. This partnership aims to leverage WeWork’s technology and hospitality services to enhance office operations for clients. WeWork's software will integrate traditional building features to improve tenant experiences and generate new revenue streams for property owners. The collaboration has garnered positive interest from major institutional owners and Fortune 500 companies, with pilot programs already underway.
- Strategic investment of $150 million in WeWork to enhance office operations.
- Positive reception from institutional real estate owners and Fortune 500 occupiers.
- Collaboration aims to improve tenant experience and generate new revenue streams.
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Investment follows creation of exclusive strategic partnership to create new offerings for real estate owners and occupiers
The two companies recently announced an exclusive strategic partnership intended to provide clients with best-in-class office operations by combining WeWork’s proprietary hospitality and technology-enabled services with Cushman & Wakefield’s industry leading asset and facilities management services. In the time since that announcement, the firms have reported a positive reception from major institutional real estate owners and Fortune 500 occupiers, leading to early pilot program opportunities.
The partnership will also help grow WeWork’s new landlord and tenant-focused offerings through two initiatives. The first initiative will focus on helping building owners and corporate occupiers improve the daily user experience through use of WeWork’s proprietary software that will integrate traditional building features like access control and reservation systems with onsite hospitality and amenity programming. The same technology will also provide access to critical asset usage data, guiding capital investments to support leasing, tenant or employee retention, operational efficiency, ESG/energy goals and, ultimately, return on investment.
The second initiative will allow owners to create new revenue streams by operating flexible workspace centers within their portfolio. Over time, as those tenants grow out of the flex space, Cushman & Wakefield’s leasing and project management teams will be able to convert tenants into more traditional office space, within the same building.
Corporate occupiers have also been very focused on managing the employee experience as workers return to the office. While
“WeWork is recognized as an innovator in our industry because they have demonstrated their ability to build a tenant experience that people are drawn to, and they’ve been a pioneer in using technology to efficiently manage that experience and the office space around it,” said
“More than ever, property owners are looking for a competitive advantage to drive tenant demand for their offices. Meanwhile, today’s office worker has elevated expectations for a workplace experience that is convenient and customizable, while allowing them to build community with other workers. Even in the early days of this partnership, we’re seeing many opportunities to scale the ‘WeWork experience’ much like we scale our traditional building management services,” said
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