NRG moving offices to One Shell Plaza

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NRG Energy will be moving its downtown Houston offices into the One Shell Plaza tower, the company confirmed on Wednesday.



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NRG Energy will be moving its downtown Houston offices into the One Shell Plaza tower, the company confirmed on Wednesday.



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NRG Energy will be moving its downtown Houston offices into the One Shell Plaza tower, the company confirmed on Wednesday.

The move will bring NRG's Houston-based employees under one roof, instead of housing them in buildings scattered across the city, said Jennifer Wallace, NRG's senior vice president of administration.

NRG will vacate its offices in the GreenStreet building, also downtown, where more than 1,500 employees work in the merchant power company's Houston headquarters. (NRG's second headquarters is in Princeton, New Jersey.)

Shell Oil Co. has put a substantial portion of its namesake building at 910 Louisiana on the market for sublease as it consolidates offices to west Houston. Shell has about 800,000 square feet of space at One Shell Plaza.

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The building, owned by Busycon Properties, is 98 percent leased. Colvill Office Properties, which handles leasing for Busycon, declined to disclose the size of NRG's sublease.

Earlier this week, Porter Hedges, a law firm and a long-time tenant of NRG in a downtown building at 1000 Main, announced through the firm's real estate broker that it had switched its sublease from NRG to the building's landlord.

Last month, NRG announced that it plans to divest up to $4 billion in assets. In early August, the company began nation-wide layoffs, although it would not disclose how many people lost their jobs. But a group of around 80 workers to serviced NRG power plants in the Houston area confirmed that they had been laid off.

NRG said the planned office move is unrelated to the company's efforts to downsize.

Houston lawyers Patrick Sharkey and Amanda Sheneman of Jackson Walker advised NRG on the sublease deal along with in-house lawyer Scott Thomas.