Shure to open downtown office
Shure, the Niles-based maker of microphones and other high-end audio equipment, is opening a downtown office.
The company leased 35,000 square feet—a full floor—of the National, as the renovated 20-story former headquarters of Chicago Public Schools is now known.
Shure plans to outfit the space at 125 S. Clark St. with a demonstration center for its corporate business, which is growing fast, thanks to a new line of audio-conferencing equipment. The company also is outgrowing its seven-story Helmut Jahn-designed headquarters in Niles, so it needs more office space.
"We're rapidly expanding our product-development and engineering groups," said Mark Brunner, Shure's vice president of corporate and government relations. "The Niles facility is reaching capacity."
Shure will shift 85 workers downtown. But unlike other companies that have moved downtown to be closer to young tech workers, Shure is also moving sales, marketing, customer service and market development workers into the Loop.
"The downtown location could help us be closer to clients across a variety of customer groups, such as corporate customers as well as clients in town for concert events," Brunner said.
The company could have 130 to 150 workers downtown within two to three years, said Pat Knoll, Shure's senior director of global facilities.
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