How auto plant closings changed two Michigan communities

Detroit-Hamtramck is one of four factories GM will close this year as part of an ongoing effort to save $6.5 billion in operating costs.

Automakers Receive More Than $1B to Stop Plant Closures, Build EVs

The federal government is providing $1.7 billion in grants to help revitalize 11 shuttered or at-risk auto manufacturing and assembly facilities ...

Factory towns no more: Michigan communities lose their lifeblood ...

End of the day: Workers at the General Motors plant in Wilmington, Del., leave after a shift last week. The plant, which employed more than ...

'They destroyed our little town.' What Michigan's auto industry left ...

Milan, Romeo and Wyoming are Michigan towns with something in common: All are sitting on shuttered auto plants where legacy pollution may ...

What caused Flint Michigan's car factories to close? : r/AskHistory

Newer plants are simply going to be more efficient than retooling or upgrading existing plants. So that was part of the reason to shift ...

More than half of closed auto plants in region have found new uses

The CAR study includes an exhaustive list of every auto manufacturing plant. The following are the facilities from Southeast Michigan and the ...

After the closing of GM's Detroit plant, what lessons can be learned?

That factory, officially known as GM Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly, faces closure next year, which raises the question of whether the city's residents got what ...

Timeline: Looking back at the recent auto plant closings - MLive.com

GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- Decades of manufacturing history came to a halt this year at the news of the closing of two Flint-area auto plants, ...

GM to close 5 factories, including Hamtramck and Warren

Five GM factories will close in 2019, including the Warren transmission plant. Two Michigan auto factories will halt production in 2019. General ...

Life After GM: A Family Upended By Auto Plant Closure Took ...

Three members of a Michigan family had all worked at a General Motors plant near Detroit before it closed in 2010, as the economy and the ...

General Motors closing two plants in metro Detroit - WXYZ

In a press release, the company said it will close the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant in Detroit and Warren Transmission Operations in Warren.

What General Motors Did To Flint - Jalopnik

But Flint fell alongside GM too, both as plants closed and jobs moved overseas and the city's own tax base eroded when GM moved outside Flint ...

GM plant closing in Saginaw, Michigan - World Socialist Web Site

Just three years ago 500 jobs were eliminated at the Saginaw Steering complex. The plant closing is part of the auto company's plans to sell off ...

Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly - Wikipedia

Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly, also referred to as Factory Zero and GM Poletown, is a General Motors (GM) automobile assembly plant straddling the border ...

GM's Plant Closures Confirm the President is a Liar and a Fool

Barely two years later, on the Monday after Thanksgiving, General Motors announced that it was closing major auto plants in Michigan, as well as ...

Ghost of Poletown hangs Over GM's closing Detroit-Hamtramck plant

General Motors ignited a firestorm of criticism when it recently announced it will shut down its massive Detroit-Hamtramck factory.

Repurposing Former Automotive Manufacturing Sites in the Midwest

The plant closed after World War II ended, and in 1947, GM purchased the plant ... When faced with multiple closed auto sites as in many Midwestern communities ...

Developers Revive Closed Auto Plants - The New York Times

Developers, drawn by lower property values, have been purchasing closed auto plants, which have helped communities regain considerable tax ...

GM halts production at 2 major plants due to Hurricane Helene

... communities, as we seek to minimize impacts on our plants.” The ... The Michigan factory, GM's oldest still-operating assembly plant in ...

Plant Closures Are the Tip of the Auto Companies' Anti-Worker Spear

An auto plant closure can destroy the community surrounding it. ... two other facilities across Michigan, Maryland, and Ohio, eliminating ...