Eli Lilly and Company, Corporate Wellness Building 49 and East Commons

Eli Lilly wanted employees to be able to bike to work, run at lunch, and play a pickup game after. The wellness center and commons we built made that ordinary.

The 25,000 SF building is the campus entrance for anyone arriving on two wheels or on foot. Inside are bicycle storage, locker rooms with showers, club storage, and a set of group fitness and multipurpose rooms.

Outside, East Commons turned the adjacent ground into a synthetic rubber track wrapping a turf soccer field, with an amphitheater alongside. On a corporate campus, that combination is unusual. Most employers offer a gym. This one built a field.

All of it went up on a working campus, with our schedule, safety, and quality systems folded into Lilly’s own so the work stayed out of the way of the people it was being built for.