Is Goldman Sachs planning a big move in North Texas?
Word about a big Dallas expansion for Goldman Sachs is making the rounds again. For more than a year, there has been chatter in the North Texas real estate market about possible plans by the Wall Street investment firm to expand its Dallas operations. Last month Goldman Sachs officials said they were planning to hire more than 200 additional employees for its Richardson consumer banking office, which now has more than 630 employees. And Goldman has more than 1,000 workers in downtown Dallas Trammell Crow Center. Now theres talk that the financial giant is planning to expand its North Texas footprint even further with a larger operation, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. Goldman is talking with Dallas real estate firms about taking a larger block of office space, according to Bloomberg. So far Goldman representatives arent confirming or denying such plans. We continue to grow our presence in the Dallas area and cannot comment at this time on our future expansion plans, Goldman Sachs Maeve DuVally said in an email. Late last year, there were reports that Goldman was looking at locations in Florida and in the Dallas area to relocate divisions and more workers. Goldman employs more than 40,000 people with major operations in New York, Salt Lake City and Dallas.