Nike Renaming Campus After Philip Knight

BEAVERTON, OREGON (October 15, 2025) – Nike is honoring founder Philip Knight by renaming its World Headquarters as the Philip H. Knight (PHK) Campus.

Nike has been located in the Beaverton, Oregon campus, which is roughly 400 acres, for more than 35 years.

A news release from Nike said: “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.”

Elliott Hill marked his one-year anniversary as Nike President & CEO by announcing the honor of Knight in an all-staff email.

“This is more than a name change,” Hill said. “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.”

Those paths and fields are ample at PHK. In planning the original headquarters, Knight drew inspiration from architectural language traditional to college campuses, including common community buildings, natural spaces, recreation facilities and walking trails.

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

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

The most recent additions to the campus are the LeBron James Innovation Center, which opened in 2021 and is home to the Nike Sport Research Lab, and the 1-million-square-foot Serena Williams Building, which opened in 2022 as Nike’s biggest investment in design and creativity.

Today the campus encompasses more than 40 buildings. Nike’s global footprint also includes its European Headquarters in Hilversum, Netherlands (opened in 1999); Greater China Headquarters in Shanghai (2013); and Converse World Headquarters in Boston (2015).

Nike plans to celebrate the name change with an event honoring Knight in spring 2026.

Phil Knight is a member of the Sporting Goods Industry Hall of Fame.