CHICAGO—On Tuesday Motorola Solutions announced it was leaving the suburbs and headed downtown, largely to help it continue recruiting a young, tech-savvy workforce. But the employee base of some technology-based firms remains suburban, and many of these will remain in place as they build new facilities to accommodate growth.
Renishaw Inc., for example, has hired the Opus Group to develop a two-story, 133,000 square foot office and warehouse facility at Oakview Business Park in suburban West Dundee. The new facility, its new North American headquarters, will replace two existing suburban sites and include 47,000 square feet of warehouse space and 86,000 square feet of offices. It will also house a central IT hub for its North American operations, an open, two-story windowed exhibit hall, and a training and demonstration space for customers.
"This company manufactures precision measuring and motion control devices, and it is seeing its market pick up," Jim Caesar, regional vice president, Opus Design Build, LLC, tells GlobeSt.com. "But their current showcase is not large enough and they want to be able to better interface with their clients."
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Brian J. Rogal
Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.
