Cities struggle to search new uses for auto plants
Great-grandson of Henry Ford, came to the central locked in car, on a plan to revive the glory great empty space, investors are in a modern factory for the transformation of solar energy systems and high technology, instead of Town Cars and Thunderbirds.
“I can not re-imagine a better way to plant,” said Bill Ford, during his visit to the former assembly plant in Wixom in September.
A few months later, a plan that exists only on paper, is still awaiting final approval. The plant is still available, as well as many other establishments throughout the country cavernous space that have never been rehabilitated.
Associated Press analysis shows the extent of the problem is sitting removed from 128 plants in North America since 1980 by the three Detroit carmakers and their suppliers greatest, three out of five, now inactive.
At its peak, the roaring engines of economic activity have been used hundreds of thousands of people, mostly highly paid union members on the assembly line workers and engineers in the office window mode of the factory.
The 128 plants had closed a payroll of 196,000 employees at the time. Now we just have 36,500 people working in those places that have recently developed, and only three reached by the plants once the number of employees or exceed the number for the automotive industry to its past. The rest are concrete or steel giant prairie to wait for the re-use or a wrecking ball, most with no real opportunities for new uses.