John Schoettler, the Amazon world actual property chief who oversaw the ordinary expansion of the corporate’s footprint for greater than 20 years, is retiring on the finish of 2024 after 23 years.
Schoettler led the growth of Amazon’s place of work house from about 1 million sq. toes when joined in January 2001 to greater than 65 million sq. toes in additional than 60 international locations these days. This comprises the corporate’s growth to a regional headquarters encompassing Seattle and Bellevue, Wash., and its introduction of a 2d headquarters in Arlington, Va.
He additionally oversaw the corporate’s actual property tasks all through Amazon’s previous clashes with Seattle civic leaders, the shift to far off paintings all through the pandemic, and efforts to reconfigure place of work house to deal with hybrid paintings. His retirement comes as Amazon prepares to convey staff again 5 days per week subsequent 12 months.
Schoettler will probably be succeeded via Shannon Loew because the vp accountable for the corporate’s International Actual Property & Amenities crew.
A 20-year actual property business veteran, Loew joined Amazon in January 2023. Amazon says he began overseeing the day by day operations of International Actual Property & Amenities crew previous this 12 months.
Schoettler introduced his retirement Thursday at a Puget Sound Industry Magazine tournament the place he used to be identified for his lifetime achievements as an Amazon government and in the neighborhood.
“We thank John for his over 20 years of management at Amazon,” the corporate mentioned in a commentary supplied to GeekWire. “On most sensible of establishing collaborative place of work areas for our world company staff, John’s imaginative and prescient helped to embed Amazon within the material of the communities during which we make investments, supporting downtown economies all over the world.”
Amazon cited neighborhood tasks spearheaded via Schoettler together with the Mary’s Position Circle of relatives Heart on the corporate’s Seattle headquarters, and the Group Small Industry Reduction Fund that supplied monetary help to small companies round Amazon all through the pandemic, when staff had been operating from house.
Schoettler is at the board of Seattle Kids’s Sanatorium, and the Board of Regents at Washington State College. He up to now used to be chair of the Larger Seattle Chamber of Trade, and a member of the forums of the Larger Seattle Chamber of Trade, the Downtown Seattle Affiliation, and Cascade Public Media (KCTS9).
