A few years after opening their first office in Stamford, real estate company Jones Lang LaSalle needs new digs to keep up with expanding operations.
The 15 employees of the multi-national company will triple their office space when they move from 500 Summer St. to 100 First Stamford, said senior vice president Don Bucci – and they’re going to need the room.
The move will not affect Jones Lang LaSalle’s Hartford offices.
“We just flat-out grew out of the place we’re in,” said Bucci, who heads up the company’s business in Fairfield County and Westchester County, N.Y., where JLL opened a White Plains office last year.
Jones Lang LaSalle’s Stamford office started a few years ago with a handful of professionals, he said, but their workload has required an expanded workforce and the company intends to grow its Stamford operations in the future.
Expansive Work
JLL’s Stamford operations include investment sales, agency leasing and tenant representation services, project and development services and facilities and property management.
Bucci said JLL’s reputation has grown in Stamford, fueling its workload. The more quality work JLL does in the region, the more businesses recognize the name and want to do business.
“Word has gotten out on who we are,” he said.
It doesn’t hurt that business is growing in Stamford, either – New York-based firms are increasingly locating outfits in the area, which includes Norwalk and Greenwich, Bucci said. JLL also has an office in Hartford that deals in project management, property management and agency leasing and tenant representation.
But the Stamford area – aided largely by New York business’s help – is outpacing JLL’s capital city operations. Bucci said the company maintains strong Hartford operations, but the market here isn’t growing as fast.
