With over 15 years of experience guiding stakeholders and designing transformative workplace environments, McElligott brings a wealth of experience and passion in initiating projects with a strong emphasis on client engagement and service. Leveraging her experience as an Owner Representative, she affords unparalleled insights into the intricate dynamics of the owner’s perspective.

“We are thrilled to have Natalie join our workplace team and contribute her expertise to our diverse range of adaptive reuse, mass timber and mission critical projects,” says Reding.

Throughout her career, McElligott has worked with notable organizations such as Illinois Tool Works, Kellogg’s Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank and led successful developments resulting in the creation of numerous new headquarters, corporate campuses, office renovations, and new banking locations. These wide-ranging projects required strategic planning and design expertise in the areas of commercial office, hospitality, customer experience centers, demonstration kitchens, laboratories, branding, and corporate campus planning across over 1 million SF in project scope over the past seven years.

DLR Group has experienced continued growth in Chicago with the recent launch of sonrai IAQ™ by DLR Group, an intelligent air quality analytics platform that collects and visualizes live and historical building performance data; the proposed Rivere development in River North with Friedman Properties; over 1 million SF with Hines on numerous T3 mass timber office asset class, including a concept for Goose Island; The Moxy Chicago Downtown; and a new ground-up Marriott-brand hotel in the Loop.

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