General Motors Co. workers at the automaker's headquarters in downtown Detroit are staying put.

GM spokesman Tom Wilkinson said Friday that the company has decided not to relocate 3,000 of the 5,000 employees in the Renaissance Center to other facilities.

Many of the workers would have been sent to the company's Tech Center in nearby Warren.

Wilkinson says the move would have been a disruption and cost in "the tens of millions of dollars."

The city has offered GM some incentives to keep workers downtown. Mayor Dave Bing says it will keep jobs in Detroit.

But Warren Mayor Jim Fouts says the move would have made better financial sense for GM because much of its research and design operations are at the Tech Center