GM is relocating its global headquarters from the Renaissance Center on the Detroit riverfront to the Hudson’s Detroit building in downtown. The move is scheduled to take place by 2025, and marks a significant transition as The General leaves the RenCen after nearly 30 years. The new workspace is framed as the right location to meet the evolving needs of GM’s workforce, and is expected to encourage collaboration and innovation. Now, we’re checking out the new building with the following GM Authority photos.
“We are proud to remain in the city of Detroit in a modern office building that fits the evolving needs of our workforce, right in the heart of downtown,” said General Motors CEO Mary Barra during the move announcement. “Our new headquarters will provide collaboration areas for our teams, executive offices and display space for our vehicles.”
The new Hudson’s Detroit building, developed by real estate firm Bedrock, spans 1.5 million square feet and embodies a multifunctional hub featuring office spaces, retail units, a hotel, residential condos, and event spaces. It’s a site deeply woven into Detroit’s fabric, once serving as the home to the iconic Hudson’s department store, the second largest in the world until its closure in 1983. Additionally, General Motors’ move to Hudson’s Detroit marks a return to Woodward Avenue, providing a nod to automaker’s historical roots as the area where General Motors first established its headquarters in the city.
General Motors is expected to lease the top two floors of the Hudson’s Detroit building, occupying roughly 150,000 square feet at approximately $59 per square foot annually. This translates into significant investment on GM’s part, alongside additional costs for utilities and custom interior build-outs. However, these costs reflect the anticipated value the new location will provide through modern amenities and an enhanced working environment conducive to the evolving needs of GM’s workforce.
General Motors also plans to showcase vehicles and host community events on the street level, enhancing its visibility and engagement with the public. The total lease commitment is set for 15 years.
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This looks way more exciting and relevant to Detroit’s future than a 114 year-old refurbished train station on the edge of the city. Tiger Stadium relocated closer to the heart of the city for some of the same reasons…
I’m not sure that office buildings are well suited to the kind of dick swinging contest you seem to be proposing.
Anyway, it’s called Comerica Park. They closed Tiger Stadium.
Liked your comment Nate, well said. Cal took a jab at Ford with his comment about the train station. A sucker punch from a s___r.
The other photos didn’t include the high rise portion of the building for some reason?
I believe the smaller building is next to the big tower, GM is only using a portion of the smaller building. If that helps 🙂
After this I guess they can move to a mall kiosk near the Cinnabon.
Waste of money. There is plenty of office space in GMs assembly plants to accommodate the few left at the ren cen.
Move these high paid positions to where the real work is done.
I was born in Detroit in March of 1955. At the time my family worked at both the Ford Motor Company and the Chrysler Corporation, it was very fashionable to work in the auto industry,people were proud to work at one of Detroit’s Big Three. My mom and my aunts were regular customers of the Hudson department store. Our house was always full of Hudson boxes my parents used to store things in. My mom actually cried when the Hudson department store closed, she would love to see the new modern Hudson building, she passed in 2006. GM’s move from the Rencen to the Hudson tower represents is yet another downsizing of GM’s global footprint. I’m sure we all remember the 3 towers that was the GM headquarters for years. At the top of the building the giant General Motors name that lit up in red could be seen from miles away. When GM headquarters moved to the Rencen the GM logo was displayed at the top of the tallest tower, a lot smaller than the big red letters. By the way, when GM changed it’s powerful logo in caps, to the lower case weaker looking letters, it too was repesentive of a much smaller GM. Now this move to just 2 floors of the Hudson tower represents an even smaller GM, although GM is careful not to say that, but we know. I’ve never been a fan of the once mighty GM, it’s still sad to see the once largest automotive manufacturer in the world shrinking right before our eyes. Yet what’s even sadder is to realize it didn’t have to be this way, or did it? With it’s once 5 brands and 2 truck lines, being the biggest didn’t mean it was the best. Today GM has the reputation for making poor decisions time and again. When your a giant automotive manufacturer, closing 2 top brands, Oldsmobile and Pontiac, just doesn’t seem to be a sound business strategy. I actually feel sorry for GM, the once the top global automotive manufacturer now seems to be eating it’s self alive. Maybe one day in the future, GM will be a leading example of how not to run a business. GM is not the first major corporation to self destruct, and they won’t be the last. I sometimes wish I could have a chance to fix GM, but I quickly snap out of it.
William, GM has a fraction of its Market share that it once had in the 50s and 60s. By what they currently have today, they could still get rid of 2 brands or at least make GMC a clone product of Chevrolet Trucks like they used to be. I worked for GM for 38 years in engineering as well as cost engineering. The costs related to having “mulitiple brands” is acceptable if you have 50% market share. Buit when you only have 18%. You cannot do it. The process to make money in assembly line production is to have re-use of parts. And the more diversification you have the less profit or worse, as was the often case when I was there which was the actual annual losses on vehicles. Add that to CAFE requirements of selling small cars which during my time was usually not profitable and in fact some even were being sold for less then What the cost to produce them was. They need a managemet shake up there. The idea that they could do all these EVs and beat Tesla by model year 2025 should have been the clincher. But the Board of Directors don’t have the guts which is attributed to the Culture of the company.
I don’t work for GM nor have I ever, however I do know this, GM sells more vehicles in the USA over any other brand.
I have had multiple brands of Cars and Trucks over the years and to this day always seem to get the best service out of my GM vehicles. (Others have also been good as well) It seems like a lot of people (fools) try to make companies out to be political. Companies are not political only individual people are. Most Companies try to remain neutral on politics. GM,Ford,Stellantis,Toyota,Honda all know the importance to stay out of political issues. All these companies have to answer to there share holders. So when I read an individuals interpretation post about any auto manufacturers political standings I know a fool is writing comment and stop reading post.
“Companies are not political only individual people are”
Companies absolutely do make political statements and take political sides. You need only look at their site to see where they stand.
https://www.gm.com/#Commitments