Having Gateway locate here is an affirmation of 20 years of effort by the City Council to make the South Poway Business Park successful. Poway Mayor Mickey Cafagna said he was elated by the news. As for San Diego, there were no jilted feelings as far as Mayor Dick Murphy was concerned. The decision to relocate in suburban North County comes less than three years after Gateway moved into its existing headquarters, a set of two-story office buildings off Towne Centre Court. About 350 employees work in the facility, which comprises slightly more than 182,000 square feet.
Gateway plans to sublease that facility.
Cafagna and Bowersox said Gateway was given no financial incentives to move to Poway. Ted Waitt, Gateway's founding chairman and chief executive, started the custom-built computer business in a farmhouse near Sioux City, Iowa, in 1985. He decided to move his executive headquarters to San Diego in late 1997 as part of a corporate restructuring that included a bid to recruit experienced executives to the fast-growing company.