Geography of America's $100B+ Corporations

[atadytic19]

Originally Posted by ParaguaneroSwag

They still built the towers there and hired 10K+ high paying jobs. People hold too much weight on a headquarters registration location



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False on building the towers part.
Those towers were previously occupied by Enron and Chevron moved in after.

The building that Chevron bought was demolished and the lot is still vacant.

The proposed Chevron tower was supposedly going to be one of the tallest in Houston.

[ParaguaneroSwag]

Originally Posted by atadytic19

False on building the towers part.
Those towers were previously occupied by Enron and Chevron moved in after.

The building that Chevron bought was demolished and the lot is still vacant.

The proposed Chevron tower was supposedly going to be one of the tallest in Houston.

Ah got you. But regardless, they occupied the entire 2 buildings. They could have used that for their “headquarters space”. The Chevron Complex in Houston has a lot more space than San Ramon where the headquarters is listed. The Houston expansion was made regardless of it not being the listed headquarters.

Then you can see Austin’s Google complex. And Oracle’s Nashville complex. People hype up office expansions to be “the next big California relocation” and it’s usually not true. But it also doesn’t matter. The biggest addition is the employment it brings not having a city listed as the headquarters. Sure, it has its benefits as well but it’s not what it used to be either.

Anyway, I agree on the “Project Falcon” putting out Chevron vibes. They’ve been saying Wells Fargo is due to move to Charlotte for years now another source is hyping a DFW exit.

[JMatl]

Originally Posted by MichiganderTexan

That's one side of it but a lot of people prefer the DFW area as well given how massive the growth has been there the past few years. They don't all necessarily hate Atlanta but some prefer DFW over it for many reasons, the better opportunities in general in DFW, the horrible traffic and planning on the metro Atlanta area, higher crime etc. I feel like on city-data you always get the extreme versions of it either people like Walker who says everything negative about Atlanta or people in Atlanta that try to paint DFW as some awful place that just isn't desirable.

I'm not trying to portray DFW that way at all, it's just not desirable for me. For multiple reasons, I wouldn't live there.