CHICAGO | Economic & Business Development

[left of center]

This article has already been referenced several times in the Old Post Office thread, but I figured I'd post it here for everyone to view.

Walgreens bringing 1,300 jobs downtown
Source: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/reale...-jobs-downtown

Walgreens Boots Alliance is relocating 1,300 jobs to downtown Chicago in the years ahead at a new 200,000 -square-foot office at the Old Main Post Office, the company announced.

The Deerfield-based drugstore giant plans to formally announce June 18 that its new downtown office will house about 1,800 employees "to meet the needs of its current and future workforce while continuing to attract and retain the best talent," Walgreens said in a statement today.

The company will keep its headquarters and roughly 3,200 jobs in Deerfield, where it has been since 1975, but will be the first major tenant at the hulking Post Office structure, which is undergoing an $800 million transformation into a modern office building.

As part of the move—slated for fall of 2019—Walgreens will also relocate employees from current space at the Sullivan Center at 36 S. Wabash Ave., where it has housed its online sales division since 2010. The company expanded that office by more than 20,000 square feet last year.

In addition to those employees, the Post Office will be home to digital and IT operations as well as Walgreens global IT personnel, the company said.

...


Walgreens has eyed the Post Office as an office destination before. It was negotiating a deal in 2014 with the building's previous owner to move its headquarters to the building, but the agreement never materialized and the owner, British investor Bill Davies, died in 2016 just as his venture was selling the property.

Since Walgreens began those talks to move to the city, a flurry of companies have uprooted from their suburban homes for new downtown headquarters. Among the big movers have been Motorola Solutions, Kraft Heinz, Hillshire Brands, GE Healthcare, Beam Suntory and, most recently, McDonald's. Smaller companies such as FTD and Peapod have also relocated to the city.

...

The renovation is slated to be finished next year.