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Howard Ecker founded Howard Ecker + Company in 1975 as the first company to exclusively serve the needs of office tenants. Howard has worked with business leaders since the company’s founding to align office location thinking with the long-term physical and cultural needs of the business. Howard has completed lease transactions in virtually every state in the USA and Canada. Moreover, Howard has been responsible for several corporate builds-to-suit as well as the development of both low-rise and high-rise office buildings and several large residential developments. Other achievements include successfully negotiating a built-to-suit space for the Shure Brothers corporate headquarters, and securing 200,000 square feet in two leases for his client BDO in Midtown Manhattan.
The recent increase in remote work made many companies realize that tasks could be performed just as efficiently from home, if not more so. Large, open-plan offices, in particular, saw a dramatic drop in occupancy rates. Companies downsized their physical footprints, leading to an oversupply of mid-tier and lower-tier office spaces.
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