Net56 Sticks to the Suburbs

CHICAGO—Although Google and many other local high-tech companies have begun relocating to the CBD to attract younger workers, others have decided that the suburbs suits them fine. Net56, Inc., for example, a Chicago-area IT company, will soon move its offices from suburban Palatine to the Deer Park Office Center at 21805 West Field Parkway in Deer Park, near the border of Cook and Lake Counties.

“This business has been in their present location for a long time,” says Paul Diederich, a vice president of CBRE, who, along with Vice Chairman Todd Lippman, assisted Net56 in the relocation. Although Net56 wanted to keep some information confidential, such as the length of their new lease, the rental rate and the amount of space they will occupy, Diederich did say that “this is a much newer building and it’s more up to their specifications with better fiber optics; it also gives employees a better office environment with better amenities.”