Nike Renames Oregon Headquarters After Co-Founder Philip Knight

According to SGB Media, Nike, Inc. has renamed its world headquarters in Beaverton, OR, after its Co-Founder, Philip Knight, effective immediately.
 

The nearly 400-acre campus has been the brand’s headquarters since 1990. The site is now called “The Philip H. Knight Campus” (PHK). Previously, it was called Nike World Headquarters.

CEO Elliott Hill announced the name change in an all-staff e-mail to mark his one-year anniversary at the helm. The company plans to celebrate the name change, honoring Knight in spring 2026.

Nike released a statement that reads, “The Philip H. Knight Campus (PHK) will serve as a tribute to Knight’s ongoing legacy, as well as a permanent reminder of the founder’s mentality that Nike employees are encouraged to bring to work every day. Beyond a dedication, the new name represents a living expression of Nike’s roots and a powerful reflection of Knight’s enduring spirit: restless, bold and forever believing in what’s possible.”

Hill said, “This is more than a name change. It’s a tribute to the man whose vision created a global movement. And it’s a reminder — to every one of us who will walk these paths and run these fields — of what can happen when belief meets action.”

Nike noted that the first stage of the campus, dedicated in October 1990, united Nike employees who had previously been scattered across a couple of dozen buildings throughout Portland, OR, into six buildings that took the names of elite athletes, including Joan Benoit Samuelson, Michael Jordan, John McEnroe, Steve Prefontaine, and Mike Schmidt.

A hiring spike following Nike’s explosive growth in the 1990s prompted an expansion that roughly doubled the campus’s size, with new buildings named after Nike athletes Ken Griffey Jr., Mia Hamm, Jerry Rice, and Pete Sampras.

Recent campus additions include the LeBron James Innovation Center, opened in 2021 and housing the Nike Sport Research Lab, and the one-million-square-foot Serena Williams Building, opened in 2022 as Nike’s largest investment in design and creativity.

Today, Nike’s campus features over 40 buildings. Nike, Inc. also has major headquarters in Hilversum, Netherlands (opened in 1999), Shanghai, China (2013) and Boston, the site of the Converse World Headquarters (2015).