Handprints from Bears legend Walter Payton adorn the exterior walls of the former Sports Authority on La Salle Street. The building will become a co-working space; the handprints of famous athletes could remain.(Stacey Westcott / Chicago Tribune)
Co-working company Spaces will lease the former Sports Authority building at LaSalle Drive, Chicago, providing office space, a barista-style lounge and a roof deck. The IWG brand will open its first two facilities in Chicago in the Clybourn Corridor on 26 March and Fulton Market district on 2 April, with plans for further expansion over the next two years. There was almost two million square feet of co-working space in Chicago in 2017, with a predicted rise to 2.6 million square feet by the end of this year, according to Newmark Knight Frank and Chicago Creative Space.