2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:01:41 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] NUMMI auto plant, Fremont, California
 
Municipal Transition Team Assesses Needs as Auto Plant Closure Looms

by  Lance Howland
PublicCEO.com
October 5, 2009

Municipal officials in Fremont and Alameda County are gathering resources to plan the next use for the environs of an auto manufacturing plant, due to close April 1, 2010.

"Our focus right now is dealing with transitions for the workers, the suppliers and the communities," said Bruce Kern, executive director of the East Bay Economic Development Alliance, in an early October interview.

The closing of the NUMMI plant, a groundbreaking alliance between General Motors and Toyota a quarter-century ago, is a significant earthquake in the tectonic shifts now rearranging the American auto industry.

NUMMI, which has been Alameda County's largest private employer, stands for New United Motor Manufacturing Inc.

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There will be a public-private planning process, Fields said. It's similar to a military base closure, he added, where a number of possibilities may emerge simultaneously. "It's a land use opportunity that's bigger than the plant itself," he said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.publicceo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=683:municipal-transition-team-assesses-needs-as-auto-plant-closure-looms&catid=11:local-governments-editorial&Itemid=20

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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