LOS ANGELES—DaVita Healthcare Partners has signed an office lease for an 185,000-square-foot space at Apollo@Rosecrans in El Segundo. The new office space relocates the firm’s current 90,000-square-foot regional headquarters in Torrance, and more than doubles its current space. The tenant will take occupancy of the building in the fourth quarter of 2015.
“The square-foot per employee is less dense than it was before, which is closer to the DaVita standard nationwide. It is not about packing in bodies; it is about creating the right work environment for their employees,” Mike McKeever, a broker at JLL, tells GlobeSt.com. “Healthcare Partners were really tight and efficient in their space down in Torrance, and when the DaVita leadership took over, they said that this is not a facility that is up to our standards. They decided to invest in their workplace, and do it as soon as they could.” McKeever represented DaVita Healthcare Partners in the lease transaction along with his JLL colleagues Gary Horwitz and Kamil Agha. Grafton Tanquary and Bob Healey of CBRE represented the landlord, Invesco Real Estate and SSV Properties.