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Uber already has about 140 employees in Texas, most of them in Austin. In Dallas, the company plans to occupy about 450,000 square feet of a 500,000-square-foot tower in the Deep Ellum neighborhood. Uber’s Chicago office is currently its second-largest outside of its San Francisco base. It recently signed a 10-year lease for a 463,000 square-foot office in Chicago, but did not say how many employees would work there. It’s building a new headquarters in San Francisco for up to 8,000 employees, which will open in 2020. Uber has large offices in Seattle, Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and Pittsburgh, which is the major office for Uber’s autonomous driving-focused division. But, he added, “it’s important to note that at the end of the day, it wasn’t just about cost but really about the talent.” “Cost was one of many factors as we were considering this,” he said. He said Uber was also attracted to Dallas’ lower labor expenses and cost of living. Miller said Dallas stood out to Uber because of its large talent pool, business-friendly climate, major airport and state and local leaders’ enthusiasm. “We were always encouraging them and reinforcing their findings, but for us it was not a typical ‘Let’s drive you around and look around,’ ” Rosa said. It had narrowed the list to two leading contenders: Dallas and the Phoenix area. They learned the company was Uber - and that it had already done its homework. In early April, a small group of city and state leaders gathered at the Dallas Regional Chamber office.

He told Rosa he’d soon hear about another big project. Mike Rosa, senior vice president of the Dallas Regional Chamber, said a CBRE representative called him and asked about the Dallas area’s bid for Amazon HQ2. It hired site selection consultant CBRE to guide the search.ĭallas officials first heard about a potential corporate expansion in March but didn’t know the company behind it. In early 2019, Uber began looking for a city where it could open a general and administrative office to support the business, Miller said.