[CPEO-BIF] Former General Motors Pontiac East Assembly Plant, Pontiac, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Michigan-based supplier to invest up to $50M in Pontiac facility

by Melissa Burden
Detroit News (MI)
May 27, 2014

A Michigan-based automotive supplier plans to invest up to $50  
million in a new automotive components assembly facility in Pontiac,  
creating 450 new jobs at the site of a former General Motors plant.

Challenge Manufacturing Co., based in Walker, plans to build a  
400,000-square-foot facility in Pontiac at 2100 S. Opdyke. The site,  
formerly the General Motors Pontiac East Assembly Plant, closed in 2009.

Pontiac has faced economic and employment blows over the past several  
years, as GM and others have closed factories, affecting thousands of  
people.

The Michigan Strategic Fund on Tuesday approved a $2.5 million grant  
for the company, which says because of new contracts it needs new  
assembly operations, according to the Michigan Economic Development  
Corp. The Michigan Strategic Fund board also will consider a  
brownfield tax-increment financing reimbursement valued at $2.2  
million for the project, plus funds to help hire employees.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140527/AUTO01/305270075/1361/ 
Michigan-based-supplier-to-invest-up-to-$50M-in-Pontiac-facility

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