DaVita has stated that it will lease an additional 20,000 square feet of office space at 16 Market Square. Approximately 100 employees will be housed in the new office space. The new space will augment the company’s existing headquarters 1550 Wewatta Street.
Unforeseen growth in Denver is behind the move, according to the company. Currently, Davita is constructing a brand new office space in the Lower Downtown or LoDo area of the city which will be ready in late 2012.
Set to cost USD 90 million, the new headquarters will have 270,000 square feet of office space and will be at 2000 16th Street. Over 900 employees will work at the new headquarters building.
In 2010 the company moved from its original headquarters in California to Denver. Since moving to Denver, DaVita has created over 300 new jobs, the company claims. Additionally, thousands of employees from all over the country have come to Denver for training.
“We are growing faster than we expected for two powerful reasons,” Kent Thiry, DaVita chairman and CEO stated. “First, more DaVita teammates are choosing to move to Denver because they have heard how much people like it here, and second because our business is growing faster than we anticipated which leads to more local hiring.”
In February of this year, when ground was initially broken on DaVita’s new headquarters the company stated that it had chosen Denver for its new base due to the city’s healthy cost of living and environmentally sensitive residents.
Currently, DaVita has some 35,000 employees in the US.
Editor’s notes: As of June 2023, DaVita continued to list 2000 16th Street as its world headquarters office on its website, and employed approximately 70,000 people.
DaVita’s revenue for the twelve months ending March 31st 2023 was $11.665 billion and, as of April 2022, Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., owned 37.9 per cent of the company.
The name DaVita derives from the Italian phrase ‘Dare Vita’, which means ‘giving life’.
As of June 2023, WeWork provides space at 1550 Wewatta Street the international flex office provider operates a range of flexible office space and workspace solutions including private move-in ready offices, coworking desk spaces and meeting rooms.