WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA-Weber Shandwick, one of the world's leading public relations firms, is adding to their west coast offices with 8,000 additional square feet in the Pacific Design Center's Green Building. IPG Companies, the parent company of Weber Shandwick, and its affiliates already occupies 190,000 square feet of space at PDC.

“We are pleased that IPG Cos. continues to choose the Pacific Design Center as its California home and expand its creative presence within the Green Building,” says Charles S. Cohen, president, CEO and owner of the PDC. The multi-use facility makes it an attractive workplace option.

The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, or MOCA, is onsite along with two Wolfgang Puck restaurants and a fitness center designed by Michael Graves that aid in providing a positive work-life balance. The green features of the namesake building help to enhance company morale with hundreds of clear ribbon, gray-vision glass windows that boost energy efficiency and provide employees with ample natural light while a 300-seat amphitheater in the public plaza provides outdoor space.

IPG Cos. continued and growing use of this space underscores a trend toward multi-use office spaces with green features. “The Green building is substantially occupied by creative companies that require functional, collaborative workspaces. This is a definite design trend for cutting-edge companies, and ownership is continuously enhancing the project to accommodate these types of users,” says Jeff Lasky, senior vice president and director of leasing at PDC.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.