CBRE Embraces New Office Culture

KANSAS CITY— For years, commercial real estate professionals have dealt with tenants who want to shrink their offices’ footprints through strategies like cutting down the number of separate offices and designing more common space. And now, CBRE‘s Kansas City office has joined that trend by moving their roughly 50 professionals from the 5th floor of Park Plaza at 4717 Grand, where for ten years they occupied about 13,000-square-feet, to the American Century Tower II at 4520 Main Street, where they now occupy just 10,000-square-feet of space.

“The office sector is clearly going through a transformation,” says Kevin Thorpe, chief economist at Cassidy Turley. “Many businesses are reassessing space needs and recognizing they can function perfectly well with a smaller, more efficient footprint.”