NCR Corp., the last Fortune 500 company based in Dayton before it moved to Gwinnett County, Ga. during the recession, is moving its headquarters again, this time to the city of Atlanta near Georgia Tech.
In June 2009, NCR rocked the Dayton business community by announcing it would relocate its headquarters and nearly 1,300 jobs to the Atlanta area.
The new campus will be on Spring Street at Centergy North at Technology Square in Midtown Atlanta, which had rumored to be the lure for the company because of its tech savvy-population. The move would happen sometime late in 2017 or early in 2018.
“Creating a state-of-the-art campus in midtown Atlanta near Georgia Tech marks an important step in NCR’s reinvention as an exciting and important, global technology company, NCR Chairman and CEO Bill Nuti said in a release Tuesday.
“You can count on your hand the number of successful technology company reinventions that have been executed over the last hundred years – and NCR is amongst them,” he said. “NCR runs global commerce and we make the everyday easier as consumers connect, interact and transact with business. We are extremely proud of the important innovations we create and the valuable work done on behalf of our customers around the world right here in metro Atlanta.”
The planned move would be a monumental blow to Gwinnett and a jolt for Atlanta, which has seen a flurry of technology companies pick in-town locations for the past few years.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution first reported in March that NCR was involved in secret discussions to build a major corporate complex near Georgia Tech in a bid to tap a direct line to the highly skilled engineering and programming talent that graduate each year.
And in April, the AJC reported that NCR had weighed whether it would ask Georgia Tech’s foundation for as much as $30 million to buy land for a new corporate campus to house as many as 4,000 employees.
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