Uber looks like it’s on track to make more money selling a building it owns in Oakland, California, than it has selling rides over the last 10 months. In 2015, Uber bought the old Sears building in downtown Oakland with the intention of moving 3,000 of its employees to an expanded headquarters in the smaller, less–filthy-rich city just across the Bay from San Francisco, which the company currently calls home.
That never happened. And now Uber is selling its 380,000-square foot building to the CIM Group, a Los Angeles–based real estate investment firm, for $220 million, according to a report from the Registry, a website that covers Bay Area real estate deals. Uber bought the building in 2015 for $123.5 million, but after never moving in as planned, the company announced in August that it was considering putting the building up for sale.
