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GM Global Headquarters To Take Two Top Floors Of Hudson’s Detroit

In shifting its global headquarters out of the Renaissance Center and to the twelve-story brand-new office complex known as Hudson’s Detroit, GM will initially occupy the top two floors, according to the latest information about the move.

Crain’s Detroit Business reports this will give The General 97,642 square feet of floor space for its headquarters, at 49,232 square feet on the 10th floor and 48,410 square feet on the 11th floor.

Ground floor rendering of the GM Hudson's HQ.

General Motors is likely to expand its presence in Hudson’s Detroit, though whether it will eventually occupy the whole building is currently unclear. However, the automaker has confirmed that it also plans to use “showcase space on the street level for GM vehicles and community activations” in addition to occupying the top floors.

The total “Class A” office floor space in the building is around 404,000 square feet, though there is additional room for conventions and other events. The current annual lease rate for Hudson’s Detroit is $59 per square foot, meaning GM will pay about $5.7 million yearly to lease the upper two floors. The lease is currently contracted to last for 15 years.

Interior of the GM Hudson's HQ in a rendering.

The General will move its HQ to Hudson’s in 2025 according to the latest information. Meanwhile, the automaker and Bedrock LLC are debating what to do with the vacated Renaissance Center. The site could be used for a combination of commercial and high-end residential occupancy, or entirely dedicated to one or the other use.

The automaker’s real estate officer David Massaron says that “a bevy of architects, planners, general contractors and the like” will be involved in the changes planned for the Renaissance Center. The redevelopment of the site could even attract public money according to Massaron, as part of an effort to revitalized downtown Detroit.

The GM Renaissance Center.

In addition to the cost of leasing its new global nerve center, General Motors will also bear the expense of modifying the office space to meet its needs, which could potentially range from $130 to $170 per square foot.

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  1. As I said before, the broader General Motors is nothing but a shell of it’s former self. The once largest corporation in the entire world can now consolidate it’s entire global HQ into just TWO FLOORS of small office building occupying only a portion of a site once aoocupied by a department store. To put that into further perspective, the namesak J.L. Hudson department store’s footprint covered the entire site, and consisted of 29 floors… My how the tables have turned…

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    1. Let this sink in, a large percentage of the work that goes on in a corporate office can be done remotely. With today’s demographic mostly preferring hybrid or remote work, they won’t need space for say 50k people (that is high I bet), so why pay for all that space? That is waste. many of the assembly jobs from this peak years are robot driven, yet they are still bouncing around as the top automotive brand in terms of sales and profit in the world (consistently top 3) even after eliminating some brands and models to target higher profit margins than strictly sales numbers. Times have changed since the day you are trying to still live through. I’ve work for a public company that’s corporate office had 23 people in it. It is called running efficiently and being smart with your resources and money…

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      1. Remote work usually results in MUCH lower levels of productivity. I tried it 10 years ago, before retirement, and it was IMPOSSIBLE to concentrate with all the constant household distractions. It’s an excuse for today’s generations being too lazy to commute and many corporations cave – with iffy results.

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        1. I agree as I had the same experience. Every day should be get your a$$ to work day!

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      2. Lets compare to GM’s marketshare over time, then get back to me on how it all just related work-from-home ( I thought I read GM want’s employee’s back at the office) and “efficiency”… I stand by my comments.

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    2. This isn’t just a GM issue; corporate vacancies are plaguing the U.S. It’s becoming increasingly rare to see any major skyscrapers filled to capacity nowadays. The need for office space has significantly decreased compared to the past.

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    3. You sound a little uninformed. If you look at GM’s recent moves, gm has been expanding local centers in South Korea, China, other us states, and even other places in Michigan (warren tech center). GM’s total headcount isn’t down to a “shell of its former self”. They clearly don’t see Detroit as a place to locate so many operations isolated from their white-collar workforce. Gm is still booming and the future looks bright.

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    4. My own employer, a publicly traded engineering consulting firm, has massive operations in NYC and after COVID they halved their office space. They too were trying to get people back into the office but eventually they gave in and gave people the option of hybrid work. But despite this they are growing needing to increase their manpower because construction work in infrastructure and healthcare has grown for us. So like TMI said, the downsizing is not a sign the company is shrinking. It’s the sign of the times of how improvements in technology has allowed for remote work so GM is just following a broader trend of downsizing their office space to trim the excess fat and operate more efficiently. I can do my job 100% remotely now with only jobsite visits requiring my presence.

      While I am not a full on fan of WFH, it does give me flexibility to take my son to pre-school and back so I also have benefited from it. And with the constant endless increasing costs of public transportation from poor management of MTA and now further increase in costs from congestion pricing in lower Manhattan nobody asked for (except the democrats in charge), its a welcome change to be able to cut back on this expense.

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  2. 5.7 million dollars a year to lease two floors!? Build a new freaking building fothat cost.. idiots and wasteful spending. No wonder vehicles cost so much these days.

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  3. Hopefully they received a significant price reduction for leasing the space and it made more sense than building elsewhere if they feel that they needed to vs. renovating the RenCen. I also hope they keep some of the iconic RenCen intact as it is some amazing architecture that appears timeless yet modern at the same time.

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  4. Maybe they can sell the RenCen back to Ford.

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  5. How many floors or how many square feet does GM occupy of the Ren Center?
    I thought they used it all.

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  6. You are forgetting they remodeled and expanded their Warren Technical Center. It has a very large group of white collar workers.

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  7. Mary’s mistakes and wasteful spending never ends. There is ample space in existing manufacturing plants that is already paid for. It’s time the white collar gets back to where the work is being done. I’m sure they will have no problem uprooting and moving to new workplaces like they have forced union members.

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