(18 Jul 2022)
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FILE: Detroit - 5 December 2019
1. The city skyline, with the Renaissance Center to the left
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ARCHIVE: Detroit - 4 February 2019
2. Various of the exterior of the Renaissance Center, General Motors' headquarters
ANNOTATION: General Motors' CEO says the automaker will keep its headquarters in downtown Detroit.
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FILE: Detroit - 10 February 2022
3. Various of a digital GM logo affixed to one of towers of the Renaissance Center
ANNOTATION: Mary Barra tells The Associated Press GM's main office will remain in the Renaissance Center, the centerpiece of the city's skyline.
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New York - 15 July 2022
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mary Barra, General Motors CEO:
"Our headquarters will always be in Detroit, in the RenCen. We take up, I think, about a tower and a half."
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ARCHIVE: Detroit - 10 February 2022
5. The exterior of the Renaissance Center
ANNOTATION: Barra also says the company has to look at its space needs now that many white-collar employees are staying at home much of the work week.
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New York - 15 July 2022
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Mary Barra, General Motors CEO:
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"As we move to having more of a hybrid work structure, we have to look at what's the right space. But General Motors' headquarters will always be in Detroit. And right now, the plan is for it to be at the Renaissance Center. That's our home."
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FILE: Detroit - 5 December 2019
7. The city skyline
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ARCHIVE: Detroit - 4 February 2019
8. The Renaissance Center exterior
STORYLINE:
General Motors' CEO says the company will keep its headquarters in its seven-building office tower complex in downtown Detroit.
Mary Barra, in an interview with The Associated Press, said the automaker's main office will remain in the Renaissance Center, the centerpiece of the city's skyline just across the Detroit River from Canada.
"Our headquarters will always be in Detroit, in the RenCen," she said, using the name given to the complex by locals.
Barra qualified her remarks, saying she can't predict what will happen in five, 10 or 15 years.
She also said the company has to look at its space needs now that many white-collar employees are staying at home much of the work week on a hybrid home-and-office schedule.
The company takes up about 1 1/2 of the RenCen's towers, which have seen little pedestrian traffic for years. Much of GM's work force, including product development and engineering, is north of the city at an updated 1950s technical center in suburban Warren. After GM's 2009 bankruptcy, the company considered moving the headquarters there.
"As we move to having more of a hybrid work structure, we have to look at what's the right space," Barra said. "But General Motors' headquarters will always be in Detroit.
"And right now, the plan is for it to be at the Renaissance Center. That's our home."
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