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Real Estate - Global IT Outsourcing Company

The Brief:

  • Client is a global leader in IT outsourcing solutions
  • Johnson Controls selected to provide transaction management, lease management, lease administration, strategic planning & mapping/demographics services
 

Challenges:

  • Property portfolio of 12.5 million square feet in 450 locations
  • Previously decentralized real estate, with 8 autonomous business units
 

Solutions:

  • Centralized lease information
  • Opened communication channels between business groups
  • Disposed nearly 1 million square feet of surplus space
  • Proactively renewed leases
 

Results:

  • Savings realized $250 million
  • Reduced vacancy rate to below 2 percent
  • Secured lower lease rates