General Motors Names Hudsons Detroit as Its New Global Headquarters

Table Of Content

• GMC SIERRA EV DENALI EDITION 1
• Early Education Community Outreach
• Detroit Renaissance Center Global HQ
• General Motors Names Hudson’s Detroit as Its New Global Headquarters
• Rick Haglund: General Motors is moving out of Renaissance Center. Now what?
• General Motors to build mobility design center in Pasadena, California
• Two Pasadena Educational Institutions Name Permanent Leaders After Interim Roles

Hudson,” broke ground in 1891 and was the foremost retailer in Detroit — at one time the second largest department store in the world. The massive flagship store anchored the bustling Woodward Avenue corridor and was a destination for domestic and international shopping enthusiasts until it closed its doors in 1983. The structure was eventually demolished, but Bedrock has ensured that the history of the site is echoed in the new Hudson’s Detroit. I appreciate the whole auction for a research organization thing but that completely shuts out a vast majority of the automotive enthusiast public. I would LOVE to see something like this but will never have the disposable, tax write off income to afford to be the winning bidder. I really enjoyed visiting Design Center and seeing the clay designs change from one visit to the next.

GMC SIERRA EV DENALI EDITION 1

This marks GM’s fourth headquarters location in the city since 1911, reaffirming its longstanding commitment to Detroit. GM, Bedrock, the city of Detroit and Wayne County will establish a partnership to explore redevelopment opportunities for the Renaissance Center site over approximately the next year, prior to GM’s move to Hudson’s Detroit. The Cadillac House is named after designer Suzanne Vanderbilt, who joined GM Design in 1955. She worked in the Cadillac studio and was one of a handful of women car designers at the time. Her early work included the design of a 1958 Eldorado Seville Coupe called Baroness and the Cadillac Saxony convertible.

Early Education Community Outreach

Supremely talented artisans sculpt details into clay models after the mills have completed their part of the job. In the Design West facility, collaboration is easier than it was before, as design teams have better access to varied physical scenarios for quicker and more impactful design reviews, a GM spokesperson told me. The floor-to-ceiling windows enable more natural light, and vehicles can be more easily moved on to the courtyard for viewing outdoors.

Detroit Renaissance Center Global HQ

Company officials see the new space as vital as a lab to design and develop new tools to create new designs while also being a hub for internal and external GM partnerships, they said. The move is actually an expansion from North Hollywood, where the company’s design facilities had been operating for several years. The company will retain its space at the North Hollywood Design Center until the new campus is completed in the second half of 2022, officials said. The studio has the capability of designing, engineering and fabricating fully running concept and prototype vehicles onsite. The multi-cultural and multi-disciplined Advanced Design team monitors the highly influential West coast trends and creates advanced concepts across the full spectrum of product, concept and service opportunities for General Motors.

GM did have operating costs, such as taxes, utilities and janitorial expenses at the RenCen. One Detroit history and development expert calls it the major real estate story of the year. Since 2011, Bedrock has invested more than $7.5 billion to develop more than 140 properties, totaling over 21 million square feet of office, retail, residential, industrial, hospitality and parking space. In 2024, Bedrock was named one of the world’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

General Motors Names Hudson’s Detroit as Its New Global Headquarters

By the end of 2025, the car manufacturer said it also anticipates 40% of its products to be electric. Jay Kapadia, GM’s creative sound director, is one employee who combines his personal passions and technical training to reimagine the sounds of our all-electric future. The area’s city councilman, Gene Masuda, said the GM move will be huge in a city with a reputation for industrial design and development. The company bought the East Pasadena site for $49.5 million, with plans to spend more capital on modifying the buildings there. Escrow closed on the property on July 7, according to an internal city summary of the transaction.

Rick Haglund: General Motors is moving out of Renaissance Center. Now what?

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General Motors to build mobility design center in Pasadena, California

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GM Provides outreach and creative career awareness in communities within Metro Detroit as well as through-out the state of Michigan. A few of the programs and partnerships include Girl Scouts, High School & Organization Presentations, YMAD (You Make a Difference), mentorships, sketching sessions, various art demos, career shadowing, co-op opportunities etc. Outreach in communities has expanded outside of Michigan to help expose youth from around the world to what an exciting creative career in transportation design at GM looks like.

One day Sergio Pininfarina visited Design Center and the designers put on a car show out front for the occasion. Cadillac House at Vanderbilt is a single-story, 30,000 square-foot modernist-style building at GM Global Technical Center in Warren designed by architect Eero Saarinen. It is near the main entrance and served as Central Restaurant with a wide glass wall, offering panoramic views of the campus. The design won an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects in 1955. When the GM campus was first built in the Detroit area in 1956, arriving on site was like “driving into the future,” says a GM spokesperson during my recent tour.

As a creative design team member, you will work within our design studios using cutting-edge technology, research resources, and both digital & physical tools to bring ideas to life. Our product designers love details and understand the role function plays in design. Their unique and creative ideas solve complicated design problems on different parts of GM future vehicles including wheels, accessories and special versions of production vehicles.

General Motors invested $2.2 billion in Factory ZERO (formerly the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center) in November 2020 for retooling and upgrades. Factory ZERO builds a number of Ultium-powered EVs including the GMC HUMMER EV Pickup and SUV, the Chevrolet Silverado EV WT, as well as the upcoming Silverado EV RST, the GMC Sierra Denali EV and the Cadillac Escalade IQ. The initial $500 million Renaissance Center renovation was designed to make the site more accessible to the community, including the removal of the external concrete towers that limited entry from Jefferson Avenue. Improvements were also made to the interior to ease navigation, including a central glass circulation ring and the addition of the Wintergarden, an inviting space where visitors and workers could enjoy panoramic views of the Detroit River.