PITTSBURGH—Family-owned fashion eyewear retailer, Eyetique has purchased a new headquarters building in the Beechview section of Pittsburgh to house its corporate offices, employee training center (shown), laboratory and distribution facilities. The deal closed last week on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. “We could not get to the next level without this space,” Norman Childs, Eyetique’s founder and president, told VMail about the 11,000-square-foot building.

More than 20 existing and new employees will move to the new facility, which is centrally located among the company’s 17 locations, 13 of which are Eyetique shops, with the other four consisting of 3 Guys Optical stores, the company’s value optical retail chain.

In addition, the growth of the company’s own line of Norman Childs Eyewear will also be facilitated by moving to the new headquarters building.

The building, formerly union owned by the Constructors Association of Western Pennsylvania, is located about three minutes from downtown Pittsburgh and about 10 minutes from the original Eyetique store, Childs told VMail. He will maintain his office on the second floor above the original store, where all of the home office operations were located before their move to the new location, which is expected to be completed by February 2015, Childs said.

After adding seven locations since March 2013, including the acquisition of three Everett & Hurite locations and the addition of both an Eyetique location and a 3 Guys Optical location on the same day in February 2014, the company continues its “controlled growth” working toward adding five more stores in 2015, according to Childs. “We look at 25 potential businesses per year but add only about five by being selective about what we’re acquiring and taking only the right deals and the right opportunities,” Childs told VMail.