LinkedIn to Move Into Sterling Ridge Development by 2021

LinkedIn (LinkedIn.com), the Microsoft-owned, employment-focused website, will expand its workforce in Omaha dramatically as it builds a new office campus in the city. The company will increase its workforce from about 450 today to potentially 1,000 people or more by 2021, when its new two-building complex is finished in the Sterling Ridge development off 132nd and Pacific Streets.

It’s a continuing growth story for both LinkedIn and Omaha: Back in 2007, when the company was a promising website for people to post their résumés, it opened its first outpost outside of its Silicon Valley home at 90th Street and Western Ave. in Omaha. In 2016, Microsoft bought LinkedIn for more than $26 billion. It now counts nearly 600 million users and has more than 13,000 employees. In the Omaha office, opportunities also have expanded, with jobs in the marketing, legal, sales, recruiting, and engineering fields, along with the customer support operation. The staff has grown about 20% each year since 2013.

Omaha’s Lockwood Development, which has overseen the Sterling Ridge development, will develop the LinkedIn buildings, which the tech company will lease. The company had been in communication with LinkedIn since 2015 to land its Omaha expansion.

Though the Sterling Ridge development has a mix of uses, the LinkedIn buildings won’t be mixed-use, only Class A office space for the company. Omaha’s Holland Basham is the architecture firm designing the two buildings, each 100,000 square feet and five stories. The majority of the Omaha office’s expansion will be in global customer operations and global sales operations, but other job opportunities are expected to arise, too.

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