Former GM Janesville Assembly Plant Could Be Demolished Next Year
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The General Motors Janesville, Wisconsin, assembly plant employed 7,000 workers at its peak in 1970 and cranked out hundreds of thousands of cars, trucks and SUVs. But, in 2009, GM had no choice but to close the facility amid the global financial crisis. It permanently shut the facility down in 2015.
Now, it may be demolished as early as next year, according to the GazetteXtra. St. Louis-based business Commercial Development Company entered a contract to purchase the facility from GM on September 1 of this year. It has until November 15 to make a final decision on its intent to purchase the former GM plant.
If the company does buy the plant, it will begin work to remove asbestos, which will take six months, per the report. By then, if Commerical Development Company doesn’t find a buyer for the facility, it will raze the plant in 2018.
“They said, ‘Unless we have reuse needs of the facility structure, we’ll start demolishing and salvaging that plant,'” City Manager Mark Freitag said.
The company would likely demolish the oldest parts of the facility first and attempt to salvage what it can as the demolition continues. The plant was reportedly worth just $12 million last year, which represents a significant decrease from its peak value of $44 million.
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Too sad. I wish there was a way to save it.
How about building a 3-wheel electric car in there?
With what? What off-the-shelf platform does GM have to make it happen?
It was a bad joke in reference to the failed Elio in Shreveport.
Well I knew about the Elio in the old Shreveport plant, but I did think you were serious about GM making a 3-wheeler.
My bad.
Why not build the Equinox and Terrain there instead of mexico/canada
From what I heard the building is in pretty bad shape. It’s very old and basically falling apart. It would take a lot of $$$ and time to rebuild it.
One of several reasons an eventual takeover of FCA might make sense as they have numerous US plants that have had 100’s of millions put into renovations and are ready to go. Rather see that than them go to the Chinese and GM building ever more vehicles in other countries!