Brooks Running Expands Global Headquarters in Seattle

Brooks opens new offices with space designed to foster creativity and culture

SEATTLE (Jan. 29, 2025) – Brooks Running announced the expansion of its global headquarters in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. Brooks’ new office space occupies all five floors of the new CornerStone building developed by evolution Projects and built by Sellen Construction. The offices were designed in collaboration with NBBJ to foster creativity and connection, supporting the design and development of millions of performance run gear items that Brooks provides worldwide each year as the leading brand in run.

With the addition of CornerStone, located across the street from Brooks’ offices in Stone 34, the brand’s global headquarters now spans two buildings between N 34th and N 36th Streets along Stone Way N. in Fremont, totaling nearly 250,000 square feet of commercial space. This expansion supports the brand’s growing employee base, which has doubled in size since relocating its offices from Bothell, Washington, to Seattle in 2014. Brooks’ global headquarters now supports more than 500 Seattle-based employees.

“The new addition to our headquarters campus represents Brooks’ commitment to serving the needs of our growing team and business,” said Dan Sheridan, CEO of Brooks Running. “We are excited and proud to expand our footprint in the vibrant and active community in Fremont, the self-proclaimed ‘Center of the Universe.’ With access to seemingly endless miles of recreation trails at our doorstep and our focus on runners globally, we like to think of our Fremont headquarters as the ‘Center of the Running Universe.’”

CornerStone will be integral to supporting Brooks’ continued growth, expanding team abilities to develop market-leading products for runners everywhere. The modern and flexible office space caters to the workflows across departments and the tactile needs of the footwear and apparel teams. Multi-story, open vertical spaces and clear sightlines foster interaction and make product creation outcomes visible. Collaborative workspaces create seamless flow between product creation spaces, hands-on testing and development, and meeting rooms.

“Our new headquarters building is a structural expression of our core brand values,” said Katie Carlson, SVP, Chief Human Resources Officer. “We are a company centered around people. Our purpose is to inspire everyone to run and be active, and that starts with creating workspaces where teams can come together and find inspiration.”

The building fosters Brooks’ values like “Runner First” and “Keep Moving” with features including an art installation that evokes the experience of running through dappled sunlight, a two-story shoelace pendant light, an interactive wall of local running routes, and a 50-foot mural inspired by Brooks history and running culture by Shogo Ota in the “BlueLine” Cafe, which pays homage to the fastest route to a marathon finish. The building also boasts 104 bike stalls, a bike repair station, and a fully equipped gym and locker room with several showers.

CornerStone anchors the corner of evolution Projects’ “Campus Seattle” in Fremont. With exterior architecture by Weber Thompson, its mass timber framework and native forest landscape make it a showcase for the City of Seattle’s Living Building Pilot Program. 34 Stone, Brooks’ first Seattle headquarters building, was also part of the Pilot Program when it was constructed in 2013. In line with Brooks’ commitment to a long-term, science-based approach to sustainability, the new building supports the brand’s planet goals of reducing net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain by 2040. CornerStone ambitiously reduces energy and water use, incorporating extensive rainwater catchment strategies, Seattle’s largest rainwater cistern (more than 267 thousand gallons), and energy efficiency measures designed to consume 25% less energy than the Seattle Energy Code baseline. CornerStone is fully electric and will be approximately 95% decarbonized through the local carbon grid.

About Brooks Running

Brooks Running creates market-leading performance running footwear, apparel, sports bras, and accessories distributed worldwide. Brooks exists to inspire everyone to run and be active, through innovative gear, tools, and experiences designed to take you to the place that makes you feel more alive. Since 1914, Brooks has been propelled by a never-ending curiosity with how humans move, pushing the limits of motion science, engineering, and technology to create gear that unlocks the power of energy and movement for everyone. Brooks is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Visit www.brooksrunning.com for more information or follow @brooksrunning.

About NBBJ

NBBJ is an ideas-driven design architecture and design firm dedicated to making buildings healthy, communities strong and the environment resilient. With more than 80 years of experience, the firm's researchers, strategists, nurses, architects, planners and interior designers work in 12 creative capitals around the world. NBBJ is the recipient of more than 1,000 prestigious awards from leading design and business organizations, such as the American Institute of Architects, the Urban Land Institute, Fast Company and MIPIM. It is also a CarbonNeutral certified company through Nature Capital Partners' Carbon Neutral Protocol, a signatory of the AIA 2030 Challenge and the Amazon Climate Pledge and a participant of the 1.5C COP26 Communique.

About evolution Projects

We are a Fremont-based real estate development firm aiming to create special places rooted in our passion for building community. Community is at the core of everything that we do. Our projects are an expression of our values in neighborhoods where we live, work and play. With each project, we seek out new opportunities to enhance the given neighborhood or region, building on the characteristics that make them special. Success for us occurs when the project truly bolsters the sense of community through thoughtful, engaging design.

About Sellen

Sellen has been locally owned and operated out of the same South Lake Union location in Seattle since our founding in 1944. We are consistently ranked among the top contractors by volume in the region by the Puget Sound Business Journal. Our purpose is to improve the lives of those around us – as builders, partners, and neighbors. While most of our work is located in Western Washington, Sellen’s project teams have helped shape cities and towns across the entire Pacific Northwest region, from Pullman, Wash. to Pendleton, Ore. Our team has the capability to deliver a wide range of project types, including large, multi-phase campuses; multi-floor tenant improvement and acute care facility renovations; and hourly service van repair and renovation work.