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But he said he was "disappointed but not surprised" by Uber's decision Thursday due to the "significant economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic."

Johnson called the incentive package between Uber and the city of Dallas a win for all groups involved in 2019. Other incentives from the Dallas County Commissioners included a 50% abatement of Dallas County taxes and a 90% abatement of business property taxes for 10 years.īut those tax abatements were subject to creating at least 2,500 jobs with a salary of at least $100,000 by January 2023.ġ1-Year-Old Boy Killed in Dallas Shooting, Police Sayĭallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced the city of Dallas is terminating its hiring-based incentive agreement with Uber in a statement Thursday. The Dallas City Council approved a $9 million package to lure Uber to North Texas in August 2019. Of that $36 million, $24 million came from the state's corporate incentive fund, the Texas Enterprise Fund, the largest amount a company operating in Dallas Fort-Worth received since 2018. In August 2019, Uber signed economic incentive agreements at the local, municipal and state levels totaling over $36 million in grants and tax abatements. "We are concentrating our efforts on our core mobility and delivery platforms and resizing our company to match the realities of our business, which has led us to the difficult decision of reducing our future Dallas office capacity down to 500 employees," an Uber spokesperson said in a statement Thursday. The company had originally promised to create 3,000 jobs with the opening of a new hub in Deep Ellum but said "dramatic impacts" from the pandemic had reduced the capacity of the office at the Epic to 500 employees. Uber pulled out of all local and state government incentives Thursday as the ride-sharing company announced it would shrink its plans for the planned Deep Ellum offices.