WeWork's rival eyes expansion in NYC by year's end
Knotel Inc expects to have about one million sq ft under lease by December 2017.
STARTUP Knotel Inc is planning to more than triple its office space in New York by the end of the year in an effort to approach the omnipresence of WeWork Cos, the city's dominant name in shared workplaces.
The expansion comes amid growing demand for Knotel's niche in the shared-office market: companies that have 50 to 200 employees - too big for the typical co-working environment - that want their own turnkey offices and aren't ready to commit to the kind of fixed-term leases landlords typically demand.
"We serve bigger companies than co-working does," said Amol Sarva, Knotel's co-founder and chief executive officer.
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