GM is leaving the Renaissance Center in 2025 for new HQ at Hudson’s site in downtown Detroit

Photo: Dan Gilbert, Chairman and Founder of Bedrock, Mary Barra, GM CEO and Chair It’s a new dawn and it’s a new day as General Motors and Bedrock came together in partnership at Hudson’s Detroit. GM CEO and Chair Mary Barra announced that the global automotive giant will relocate its corporate headquarters from the city’s iconic Renaissance Center skyscraper to the new Hudson’s Detroit in 2025, less than one mile away, becoming the anchor tenant at Bedrock’s development on the historic site of the former J.L. Hudson Department Store. Once GM occupies Hudson’s, it will be the company’s fourth Detroit-based headquarters since it moved to the city in 1911. “It is an incredibly exciting day for General Motors and the city of Detroit,” shared Barra. “This is a very historic site for Detroit, and one that’s very personal to me. And it’s important to all of us at GM that we continue to call Detroit our home for a long time to come.” The question at the forefront and on everyone’s mind, though: What will become of the RenCen and the towers that signify the city’s skyline? & “We will partner with Bedrock in the city& of Detroit and Wayne...