Corporate photography at Hamilton Lakes Business Park
A master planned park of about three and a half million square feet at the Elgin-O'Hare and I-355 junction, with a hotel and an athletic club inside it. Park Boulevard and Pierce Road are a walk apart, so the building goes in the booking.
Hamilton Lakes is a master planned business park in Itasca developed by Hamilton Partners, holding about 3.5 million square feet of office along with roughly 32 acres of remaining development land. It sits where the Elgin-O'Hare Expressway meets I-355, which puts it within easy reach of both the O'Hare cluster and the DuPage corridor. The park carries its own amenity base rather than borrowing one from a town center: a Westin hotel, the Hamilton Lakes Athletic Club, a Bright Horizons daycare and full service restaurants are all on the property. The office addresses include 300 Park Boulevard, 500 Park Boulevard, One Pierce Place and 150 Pierce Road.
Flexera moved its headquarters into the park in March 2014, taking about 75,000 square feet at 300 Park Boulevard after relocating from Schaumburg. Itasca more broadly carries the world headquarters of Knowles Corporation at 1151 Maplewood Drive and the offices of Fellowes Brands, and Arthur J. Gallagher was headquartered in Itasca from 1991 to 2017 before moving to Rolling Meadows. If your team is in one of the Hamilton Lakes buildings, the brief matters more than the roster.
The park is spread out and drives like a campus rather than a street address, so the useful details are which building and which entrance. Surface and structured parking sit close to the doors, which makes load in short. The on site hotel matters for programs that run two days or that bring people in from other offices, and the restaurants inside the park mean a lunch break does not scatter your schedule. A conference room no smaller than eight by ten feet with a wall outlet is all the space a portrait setup needs.
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.
Sample work, photographed at other clients' offices rather than in this building. It is the standard a session here would be held to.
Johnson + Krol, a Chicago labor firm, and IWR North America, which lists a Chicago satellite office, are both clients.
- Size
- About 3.5 million square feet of office
- Land
- Roughly 32 acres of development land remaining
- Location
- Elgin-O'Hare Expressway at I-355, Itasca
- Developer
- Hamilton Partners
- On site
- Westin hotel, athletic club, daycare, restaurants
- Addresses
- 300 and 500 Park Blvd, One Pierce Place, 150 Pierce Road
Working in Hamilton Lakes Business Park, Itasca
The practical side of a shoot in this building, so the day runs on schedule.
Name the building
Park Boulevard and Pierce Road are a walk apart. Give us the building and the suite when you book so the cart goes to the right door on the first trip.
Space needed
Eight by ten feet with one power outlet. A room with a window wall is better than an interior one, and most floors in the park have one to spare.
Two day programs
The Westin on the property makes a two day program simple to staff. Teams flying in from other offices can stay inside the park and walk to the session.
Lunch and the break
Full service restaurants sit inside the park, so the midday gap does not pull people off site for an hour. We schedule around whatever break your team already keeps.
Outdoors
The park is landscaped and has water features at its center, which gives an environmental option for leadership portraits in the better months if the brief wants something other than a backdrop.
Film on a two day booking
When a program already runs to a second day, brand film and executive interviews fit the back half of it without another crew call. Stills and footage come off the same visit.
What we make for Hamilton Lakes teams
A headshot program is usually the first project. It is rarely the only one, and the same photographer handles the rest.
Corporate headshot programs
Whole teams photographed in one or two days, to one standard that holds as people join and leave.
See headshot programsExecutive portraits
Leadership portraits with the weight the business expects, for annual reports, press and the board page.
See executive portraitsBrand films and campaign video
Directed, filmed and edited by one person, from the first scope conversation through final delivery.
See brand film workRecruiting and employer brand
Culture photography and video made in the building people would actually work in, for careers pages and hiring campaigns.
See recruiting workCommercial and facility photography
A marketing team's image library for the year, so the next campaign does not start with a stock search.
See commercial workConference and event coverage
Sessions, keynotes, booths and headshot stations, photographed and filmed in the same visit.
See event coverageMost of this work is booked together. A team that needs headshots usually also needs the recruiting film, the facility library and the conference coverage, and running it through one person is what keeps the whole set looking like it came from one company.
See how the full engagement worksHamilton Lakes questions
What teams in this office park usually ask first.
Can you cover teams in more than one Hamilton Lakes building?
Do we need to involve building management?
How many people can you photograph in a day?
When should we book?
Can you work to a company portrait standard we already have?
Other buildings in this district
Your team is in Hamilton Lakes?
Tell me the headcount, the floor and the dates. A proposal follows a short conversation, and questions are answered within one business day.