X, formerly known as Twitter, has revealed when it will permanently close its San Francisco headquarters after the Elon Musk-owned company announced earlier this year plans to move its operations to Texas.
The official closing date is Friday, September 13, Fortune was first reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. X informed employees of the impending office closure in a memo Thursday, according to the publication. New York Times reporter Kate Conger, who covers X, also reported that the headquarters will close on September 13.
Twitter was launched in San Francisco in 2006, and its first headquarters was at 164 South Park Ave.
X did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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X workers had not previously been notified of when they would be moving, according to a separate Fortune Report. Musk said in July that he planned to move X and rocket maker Space X, which he also owns, from California to Texas, citing his opposition to a recently passed California law that prohibits school districts from requiring schools to notify parents if their children pray about referral. with another pronoun.
“This is the final straw,” Musk said in announcing that X would move its headquarters to Austin, Texas, and that Space X would move to Starbase, Texas.
“I made it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and businesses to leave California to protect their children,” he added.
In a separate post on X, Musk had also complained about what he called “gangs of violent drug addicts” the billionaire entrepreneur said. workers were forced to dodge “just to get in and out of the building,” referring to San Francisco’s downtown Market Street area, where X’s headquarters are located.