[CPEO-BIF] Undercar Products auto parts plant, Wyoming, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Vacant plant in Wyoming set to become auto parts manufacturer with 50 
new jobs

Matt Vande Bunt
Grand Rapids Press (MI)
September 23, 2010

WYOMING -- The firm that redeveloped a Siemens-Rapistan office building 
into a call center for Priceline.com/Booking.com now wants to renovate a 
neighboring 34-acre site for auto parts manufacturing.

Oak Brook, Ill.-based Franklin Partners LLC plans a $5.5 million 
renovation that will raise the roof of the vacant plant at 4247 Eastern 
Ave. SE.

The developer will boost the 15-foot roof to 32 feet over about 70 
percent of the plant's 318,000 square feet to accommodate Undercar 
Products Group Inc., a division of a Toronto-based auto supplier now 
operating at 900 Hynes Ave. SW. The city approved a brownfield 
designation this week that will enable both Franklin and Undercar to 
seek state tax credits.

...

A brownfield application filed with the city states that the project 
will create 50 jobs and maintain about 140 others. The property is 
contaminated with chlorinated solvents and heavy metals, and a 
brownfield designation should help the project win state tax credits.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2010/09/vacant_plant_in_wyoming_set_to.html

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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
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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