RALEIGH — IBM, one of the Triangle’s largest and oldest employers, is consolidating its Research Triangle Park-based workforce into a single office complex as it weighs the future of its sprawling 400-acre campus on Cornwallis Road.
The move marks a new chapter for the tech giant, whose RTP campus has been a cornerstone of the park since 1965, when IBM became one of the first major technology companies to invest in North Carolina’s emerging research hub. The company helped bring thousands of skilled workers to the region and offered high-tech career paths for local university graduates, cementing its legacy as one of the region’s economic anchors.
IBM confirmed it will move most employees into its RTP 500 office buildings — a multistructure complex it sold to the developer Hines in 2023 for $66 million and now leases back. The Triangle Business Journal first reported the consolidation…