Ohio digital marketing company buys 100,000-square-foot Lisle building

by Ben Miller, Chicago Business Journal

Ohio digital marketing company Stratacache said it's purchased a 100,000-square-foot building in Lisle that it said will house new research and support teams.

Dayton, Ohio-based Stratacache said the four-story building was formerly a U.S. headquarters for McCain Foods Inc.

Stratacache said more than 12 of its customers are in the Chicago area and the new facility will allow it to provide its advanced technology solutions, such as intelligent display and sensor systems, to clients in retail, restaurants, banking, entertainment, transportation and corporate communications.

"As Stratacache continues to grow, we look forward to tapping the Chicago market for development and engineering talent to further our work on our new mobile platforms, our advanced tablet compute devices as well as key projects in retail self-service systems. We will be adding significant staff in the new Stratacache Chicago center over the next several months and look forward to enabling world class customer interactive solutions designed to help our customers reduce costs and improve sales in this uncertain economic time," said Chris Riegel, Stratacache CEO, in a statement.

The Lisle building purchase is the third made by Stratacache in the U.S. in the past year. In November, the Dayton Business Journal, a sister publication to the Chicago Business Journal, reported the company acquired a 162,000-square-foot data center near Waterloo, Iowa, to serve as a 1,000-plus-seat network operations center and data hosting facility. And in March, Stratacache acquired a 1.4 million-square-foot factory in Eugene, Oregon, to serve as a wafer microLED display manufacturing facility.