Moto City

Motorola Creates Design Center Downtown

October 1, 2003

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Motorola returned to the city of Chicago, where the company began as Galvin Manufacturing nearly 75 years ago, in a bid to attract hip, young designers. Its new "Moto City" facility enables Motorola to continue to develop exciting new products and technologies, as well as showcase the company's latest innovations to customers.

The Motorola Chicago Consumer Experience Design Center consists of 34,508 square feet in the 233 North Michigan Avenue building (The Illinois Center). The space includes a design center and a meeting location for Motorola employees, customers and vendors. This space is set to employ more than 125 people including industrial designers, cross-functional software developers, mechanical engineers and marketing professionals.