GM has decided to expand its occupancy to four floors at the Hudson’s Detroit building in downtown Motor City from the originally planned two floors, or a third of the site’s 12 stories, according to the latest news about the automaker’s new headquarters.
Hudson’s Detroit will serve as the new HQ building for GM as the company leaves the iconic Renaissance Center, though the move is now likely to be delayed until 2026, the Detroit News reports.
GM will likely continue to occupy the Renaissance Center throughout 2025 and only migrate its operations to Hudson’s Detroit in January of the following year. However, the move could come sooner according to the automaker’s vice president of infrastructure and corporate citizenship Dave Massaron.
Massaron said that “collectively, we’ll be in that building very soon,” but ongoing construction has delayed the shift to the new location. Bedrock Detroit LLC, the real estate company putting the finishing touches on Hudson’s Detroit and belonging to billionaire Rocket Mortgage owner Dan Gilbert, has “an incredibly beautiful and complicated project they also have to finish” according to Massaron.
He added that the exact date of the move is “an in-progress thing based on construction, availability of resources.”
Hudson’s has been under development since 2017 on the ground once occupied by the now-demolished J.L. Hudson department store. The site now includes the 12-story office block GM plans to partly lease and an adjacent 685-foot-tall tower completed in April 2024. The location offers a total of 1.5 million square feet of space.
General Motors’ original leasing plan would have seen the automaker claim 97,642 square feet in the two upper floors of the office block. This would cost an annual lease amount of $5.7 million with an occupancy term of 15 years. It’s unclear at this point how much more the company will pay to double the number of floors leased.
The General’s current headquarters, the Renaissance Center, will be partially demolished once the automaker leaves, with three towers continuing to stand and two leveled to create a “public space” on the Detroit Riverfront.
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They should spend that time figuring out how fix lifters and coolant control valve issues for customers.
Copy and pasted from an earlier reply to you because why waste more time on an informed troll…
What lifter issues? You mean the les than 3% (probably closer to 1%) of issues that mostly have been attributed to lack of maintenance? Or the few months where there was an issue with a supplier part which they caught and corrected?
The 8 speed have no issues, early on there was a problem with the incorrect fluid, that was long sorted out and has been great ever since. Some let the problem go to long and a small percentage had to have the torque converter replaced and an even smaller part ignored it even longer causing complete transmission replacement. Either way, so you see a theme here? Lack of maintenance and letting problems going on too long.
Nice job though, an article that has nothing to do with a problem that doesn’t exist and you want to troll; Ford or Toyota fan are we?
And the 3.0 coolant control valve issues?
BUILD THEM RIGHT TO START WITH. THESE NEVER ENDING RECALLS PROVE YOU AREN’T SERIOUS ABOUT QUALITY AND DON’T CARE ABOUT THE CUSTOMER
Hard to believe that a 116 year old company that was once a colossal powerhouse, among the biggest in all of America, now doesn’t even own its world headquarters building and is leasing office space like a start-up.
PhD in business?
Plenty of space since they’re the only tenant that’s signed up so far. I’m sure they got a heck of a deal from Gilbert.