Landlords in Brooklyn are finding ways to adjust to the post-pandemic reality, with an emphasis on flexibility.
With tenants shifting to hybrid work policies and looking for shorter leases, coworking spaces within buildings has become necessary.
โIt feels like we live now in the year 2035 โฆ working from home used to be 5%, now itโs 30%,โ said Matthias Hollwich, founder of architecture firm HWKN. โThe future is, we have to offer experiences to people to work for our companies โฆ that’s changing everything in the way we think about these buildings.โ
Design has also been shifted away from cubicles to focus more on collaboration, location and amenities.
โThe way that we work is going to change. And offices will not be utilized in exactly the same way they were before,โ said Joseph Kohl-Riggs, principal at Hudson Cos. โNobody really knows exactly what that’s going to look like but I think that Brooklyn specifically is poised to benefit โฆ even if those markets in the general sense โ nationwide or in New York City โ suffer, Brooklyn is going to walk them through well.โ
