Nike Renames Its World Headquarters to Honor Co-Founder Philip H. Knight

For more than 35 years, Nike’s campus in Beaverton, Oregon, has been known as the brand’s World Headquarters: the heart of a global business dedicated to bringing inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

Now, NIKE, Inc. is renaming the roughly 400-acre property to honor its co-founder and first employee, whose vision shaped the company — and its hometown campus — into an international symbol of sport.

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.

“This is more than a name change,” says Elliott Hill, President & CEO, NIKE, Inc., who today announced the Philip H. Knight Campus in an all-staff email to mark his one-year anniversary in the role. “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, Inc.’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, Inc. plans to celebrate the name change with an event honoring Knight in spring 2026.

*If you have a body, you are an athlete

Click into the gallery below to view President & CEO Elliott Hill's all-staff email announcing the Philip H. Knight Campus.