General Motors has plans for a new “state-of-the-art” parts processing center in Burton, Michigan. MLive first reported on the potential project last month after GM was outed as the client for a NorthPoint development project. The development company has handled numerous GM projects.
According to the latest report published on Monday, the Burton facility will be a $65 million investment into the 1.1 million-square-foot facility. GM plans to lease the land from NorthPoint. The details have slowly trickled out after the city of Burton unanimously approved a 12-year-long tax abatement, though a final approval must come from the State Tax Commission.
It’s unclear how many new jobs the new facility will bring, but a previous estimate hovered around 800 new positions with the Burton facility. Work should begin on the new facility later this month with a tentative opening date sometime in 2019.
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More jobs!
Old Trombone must be frothing at the mouth right now.
Unfortunately these won’t be traditional GM jobs, they will be a third party that pays half the wages and a fraction of the benefits. Thus increasing welfare and deepening the debt problem we are currently in. Adding jobs is not the same thing as solving wealth inequality or improving quality of life.
Wealth inequality? If you’re an adult, making $35-40k per year, take a long look in the mirror. Your own poor decisions have placed you in this conundrum.
Yup, poorer people are always poor because of their own decisions. Let’s be honest with ourselves here. People who are hard working deserve to make a decent living. They are just important to our society as a whole. Not everyone is smart enough to get a higher paying career. You need to recognize that paying people a non livable wage only increases our tax burden. Because now those individuals qualify for many benefits we have to pay higher taxes for. Stop blaming the workers, these companies make a crazy amount of profit and we subsidize it by allowing them to not pay their employees.
How many of these people CHOOSE to procreate while working for these low wages? If you can barely afford to provide for yourself, why are you starting a family? BTW, it’s a documented fact that the lower a person’s IQ, the better chance that they will procreate. I know it’s difficult to understand, but you don’t start a family on McDonald’s wages. These are jobs for HS kids.
I’m a civil engineer, and the company I work for hires shop laborers at $15/hr.. Sure, it’s a dirty job but all you need is a HS diploma, reliable transportation and after a 45 day trial period, you get a $1.25/hr. raise. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon, just think logically, rationally and responsibly.
We live in The United States, a place with choices…and tons of them. If you don’t like making $8.00/hr. flipping burgers, find another job. Nobody is forcing you to be low man on the totem pole at a fast food joint.
Wow!
Just wow.
Sounds like you got everyone and their situations all figured out.
Enlighten me.
I don’t have the ability to see what every person is doing and why. So GOD. Enlighten me.