General Motors Wants to Move Into This Bay Area City

General Motors is looking to bring its Bay Area operations under one roof.

The Detroit-based automaker is reportedly exploring consolidating its various business operations in the region into one campus in Silicon Valley, the San Francisco Business Times reported, citing those familiar with the discussions.

If completed, GM’s footprint would shrink to about 400,000 square feet in one location from more than 1 million square feet between eight to 10 properties. The six-building Tech Corners office complex in Sunnyvale is reportedly a top choice for the car manufacturer, which welcomed Walmart’s e-commerce division as a tenant earlier this year.

Currently, GM has Bay Area offices in cities like San Francisco, Mountain View and Palo Alto. With an approximately 400,000-square-foot wishlist, GM could move several thousand existing workers into its future singular office. The automaker has purportedly struggled to find subtenants for portions of its San Francisco offices.

GM will have to act fast, as the office market in Silicon Valley has gotten tighter as more AI companies set up shop and workers migrate to the region for jobs. Office vacancy has fallen for four consecutive quarters while demand for high-quality office space has picked up. At the same time, no new buildings are under construction.

Sunnyvale in particular has become a hotspot for tech operations as AI, software and hardware companies snap up office and research and development spaces in the city, such as Databricks’ 305,000-square-foot lease in downtown Sunnyvale in July. In Silicon Valley at large, AI companies now occupy more than 6 million square feet, per CBRE data cited by the Business Times. GM has seemingly been looking to beef up its AI and advanced software work beyond its AI research team in Mountain View, recently hiring AI leaders from giants like Alphabet, Meta and Amazon.

GM could sign a lease for a new space in the next two months, the Business Times reported. Several of its office leases expire between 2026 and 2028.

— Chris Malone Méndez