Nike honors Serena Williams with building named after the tennis star

Serena Williams is recognized for her extraordinary grand slam legacy — she has 23 titles, to be specific. Now her legacy has been cemented in a 1-million-square-foot making at Nike’s headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. 

In an Instagram article Wednesday, Williams said it was a childhood dream of hers to have a making at Nike. 

“When I was just a kid, I visited the Nike campus and I noticed that athletes get properties,” she wrote to her 14.6 million followers. “Following that stop by, I understood I wished two matters: to be a Nike athlete and to have a creating.”

She also shared that acquiring her personal setting up is “past an honor,” saying she had chill bumps from viewing the end result of her “blood sweat and quite a few tears, quite a few trophies.”

“Can you believe that it? I have a Developing Y’ALL!!! This is Nuts!!!” she concluded.

The Serena Williams Setting up, the major on Nike’s campus, consists of a 140-seat theater named soon after her daughter Olympia. 

According to Nike, the firm’s style, insights and product-merchandising groups will work together in the new space. The building’s tripartite structure is impressed by Williams’ greatness, and it references the goddess Nike’s wings.

“The full developing normally takes your breath away,” Williams shared in the Nike press release. “Each and every ingredient, almost everywhere you go, is an option to be motivated. I hope this building encourages folks to deliver out the finest of on their own and to desire greater than they imagined probable.”

The LEED Platinum-licensed Serena Williams Setting up demonstrates Nike’s determination to championing athletes.

“Architecture has very long been a artistic catalyst for Nike,” claimed John Hoke, Nike’s chief design and style officer, in the push launch. “A manifestation of sort and operate following footprint, this constructing embodies Serena’s legacy as a power for positive alter.”

Only a number of woman athletes have properties named soon after them on the campus, like two-time Olympic gold medalist soccer player Mia Hamm and extensive-distance runner Olympian Joan Benoit Samuelson.