Quicken Loans owner Dan Gilbert hopes his company’s move to Detroit will help create a technology hub downtown. The online mortgage giant says in a release that 1,700 workers will work downtown when Quicken and several sister companies move their headquarters to Detroit in August.
A 20-year-old New Jersey-based IT company has hired its first 20 people in downtown Detroit — enroute to plans to hire 500 people over the next five years. GalaxE Solutions Inc. is setting up shop at its new Detroit development office at 1001 Woodward Ave., the former First Federal of Michigan building, across Woodward Avenue from Compuware Corp. and Campus Martius park.
A few parting thoughts –– and quotes –– from last week’s Mackinac Island shindig, as folks looked forward to what will come out of the Detroit Regional Chamber’s annual policy conference.
He should know: He’s making Detroit an integral piece of his 20-year-old company’s expansion plans, bringing 500 tech jobs to renovated offices in the 1001 Woodward building at Campus Martius. “You get business to locate here and you bring downtown back into play.”
GalaxE.Solutions CEO Tim Bryan became something of a star earlier this month at the Detroit Regional Chamber’s annual Mackinac Policy Conference, where he rarely passed up an opportunity tout the benefits of doing business in Detroit as he explained the New Jersey-based IT company’s decision to open an office in the former First Federal of Michigan building at Campus Martius.
GalaxE Solutions Inc., an information technology company that is moving its headquarters to Detroit, is now hiring, according to a story on WWJ. “We’ll be working with the state and local government with regard to job fairs and other training programs and folks should have a real easy time applying,” CEO Tim Bryan said.
“The cost basis in Detroit, for resources, for infrastructure, for real estate, is much closer now to many of the offshore locations,” Bryan told WWJ last month. “And many of our client contracts call for work to be performed onshore. So this move helps us deliver increased client value while also helping to rebuild the city.”
GalaxE CEO and Chairman Tim Bryan’s interview with Craig Fahle on The Craig Fahle Show from 05/26/2010.
So many new software and technology employees are moving in soon near Campus Martius Park that Quicken Loans boss Dan Gilbert suggested a new name for Woodward Avenue – Webward.