HMS Holdings, a healthcare services company, completed the final stage of its main headquarters move from Manhattan with the purchase of a 225,000- square-foot building in Irving, TX, several months ago.

Over the years, large corporations have been transitioning their headquarters or expanding operations westward, particularly in Texas, away from traditional metro areas such as New York and Chicago. Texas is currently tied with California as the state with the most Fortune 500 headquarters at 57, including AT&T, Valero Energy, ...