Lottery Operator Launching Software Center in Austin

AUSTIN-GTech Corp., which operates government lotteries, is consolidating three software development operations in an Austin development center. It should employ 80 to 100 information technology workers.

The West Greenwich, RI-based company, which handles the Texas lottery, occupies 90,000 sf in Austin for its lottery activities. A company contact said the only information being released is what was in the news release. She declined to say whether the new center will mean new space for the Austin operation; the release did not address real estate concerns. GTech could find room for the new center in its existing space or could have signed for space that it’s simply not ready to announce.

GTech is moving software hubs from Boca Raton, FL, Olympia, WA and Phoenix to Austin. The center will serve Gtech operations in the US and Latin America. The company said most of the employees offered transfers to Austin have accepted. It did not say whether it would make additional hires in Austin.