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500, 510, 520 and 540 Lake Cook Road, Deerfield, IL

Corporate photography at Corporate 500 Centre

Four buildings on Lake Cook Road, a minute's walk from the Metra platform, and one of the North Shore's standing headquarters addresses. Slots get built around the inbound trains instead of around a nine o'clock start.

Corporate 500 Centre is four office buildings on Lake Cook Road in Deerfield holding 697,673 square feet between them. The buildings at 500 and 510 run four stories; those at 520 and 540 run six. What sets the property apart on the North Shore is access. It stands one minute's walk from the Lake Cook Road Metra station and the bus station beside it, and only a few miles from both I-294 and I-94, so staff can reach it by train from the city and by car from anywhere in Lake or north Cook County. That commuter reach is part of why the address has drawn corporate headquarters rather than only branch offices.

The property has housed the corporate headquarters of Fortune Brands, and the North American headquarters of Beam Suntory and of Horizon Pharma. Those come from the property's leasing history rather than a statement about who is in the buildings today. Tenancy on Lake Cook Road turns over as companies grow and consolidate. If your team is in one of the four buildings now, the session happens inside your own suite.

The Metra platform a minute away changes how a day can be scheduled. Staff who commute by train arrive on a timetable, so appointment slots can be built around the inbound trains rather than assuming everyone is at their desk by nine. Four and six story buildings mean short elevator rides and a schedule that holds. A conference room of roughly ten feet by eight with a power outlet is enough, and we confirm loading, freight elevator times and the certificate of insurance with your office manager the week before the visit.

We photograph on site, in your own office. If your team is in this building, the notes below are what the day looks like. Nothing here is a claim to a past session in it, and no tenant named is a client unless it says so elsewhere on this site.

Corporate portrait on a studio backdrop, the standard a session at Corporate 500 Centre, Deerfield would be held to
Corporate portrait from the same studio session
Corporate portrait from the same studio session
Corporate portrait from the same studio session
Corporate portrait from the same studio session
Corporate portrait from the same studio session

Sample work, photographed at other clients' offices rather than in this building. It is the standard a session here would be held to.

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Buildings
Four, at 500, 510, 520 and 540 Lake Cook Road
Size
697,673 square feet
Heights
Four stories at 500 and 510, six at 520 and 540
Transit
One minute's walk from the Lake Cook Road Metra station
Highways
A few miles from I-294 and I-94
Has housed
Fortune Brands HQ; Beam Suntory and Horizon Pharma North American HQs

Working in Corporate 500 Centre, Deerfield

The practical side of a shoot in this building, so the day runs on schedule.

Build around the trains

The Metra station is a minute away and a good share of the staff arrive on it. We can start slots after a specific inbound train so nobody is booked before they are in the building.

Which address

The four buildings run 500 through 540 and are not interchangeable. Give us the number and the floor so load in goes to the right lobby.

The space it takes

An eight by ten room with one wall outlet. Four and six story plates here usually have a conference room with an outside wall available for a day.

Leadership separately

Executive portraits usually want more time than a staff slot allows. We book those either side of the main block, in the same room and with the same look.

Short elevator rides

Nothing here is taller than six floors, so the queue problem that taller buildings create does not arise. Appointments run closer together as a result.

Film between the trains

The quiet stretch after the morning arrivals is the natural slot for an executive interview or a brand piece. It shares the portrait setup, and the visit hands back stills as well as footage.

Corporate 500 Centre, Deerfield questions

What teams in this office park usually ask first.

Can you photograph teams in more than one of the four buildings?
Yes. They sit together on one property, so a program across them runs as a single booking with one setup standard, and we move the equipment rather than the people where that is faster.
Is there a way to include people who commute by train?
Yes, and it changes the schedule for the better. The station is a minute's walk away, so the slot list gets built around inbound arrivals instead of around an assumed nine o'clock start.
What does the setup need from the room?
A conference room of about eighty square feet plus one power outlet. Higher ceilings help the lighting, and a window is welcome but not required.
When should we book?
Give it three or four weeks and the date is usually there. Send the building number and headcount and you will have a reply within one business day.
Our other sites were photographed elsewhere. Can you match that?
Yes. The portraits already in use set the target, and the Deerfield faces are made to it, so the company page stays one piece instead of two halves.

Your team is in Corporate 500 Centre, Deerfield?

Tell me the headcount, the floor and the dates. A proposal follows a short conversation, and questions are answered within one business day.