Sunday 2 December 2018

Town where GM tore down 1,500 homes to build a plant responds to news of its closure

GM’s decision to shutter five factories and shed 15,000 jobs will hurt towns across the Heartland. But for one town GM is leaving, the pain is even more severe. That’s because GM leveled a full neighborhood in suburban Detroit to build a then-state-of-the-art plant that was to build the Chevrolet Volt hybrid among other products. About 465 acres were cleared in the 1980s to make way for the plant, including 1,500 homes, 140 business, a […]



source https://therealdeal.com/chicago/2018/12/01/gm-tore-down-1500-detroit-area-homes-to-build-a-plant-and-now-its-closing-it/#new_tab

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