![]() ![]() We already knew that it was going to take Uber longer than initially advertised to fill up its space in the Epic. ![]() ![]() Which is all fine and dandy, but where does that leave the Epic, Deep Ellum, and Dallas? Uber’s investment strategy has been to sell off divisions and then invest in the companies it sells those technologies to, while refocusing in house efforts on mobility and its booming food delivery service. The sale was the latest for Uber, who has spent the pandemic shedding some of its riskier tech bets, including selling off its scooter division to Lime. But those jobs won’t be moving to Dallas. The Santa Cruz, CA-based company is still jazzed about the idea of flying taxis - they believe they can roll out the technology by 2023. The latest blow to Uber’s Dallas expansion came last week, when the company sold off its air taxi division to a company called Joby Aviation. By September 2020, the company was looking to sublease those empty floors in the new Epic development in Deep Ellum. The scale of the company’s promised investment in Dallas inspired state, city, and county officials to offer $36 million in public incentives to support the company’s move. The ridesharing giant said the jobs it would relocate to or create in Dallas would support its many expanding divisions, including a self-driving air taxi service the company would pilot right here in Big D. When Uber announced in September 2019 that it planned to bring 3,000 employees to Dallas, the world was in a very different place and Uber was a very different company. ![]()
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