The GM Heritage Center, which houses a collection of 600 cars and trucks from the automaker’s history, will soon be relocated to Grand Blanc Township in Michigan, bringing it closer to GM’s hometown.
According to local outlet 12 News, GM made the announcement on Thursday, September 29th that its Heritage Center would be moved to what was formerly the Customer Care and After Sales Headquarters in Grand Blanc Township. The office building, which is located near the intersection of I-475 and Hill Road, will be converted into a showroom for the myriad of historic GM vehicles.
Currently, the GM Heritage Center, which opened in 2004, is located in Sterling Heights, Michigan. The automaker says that relocating its collection will not only grant more space, but will also put the museum in a location that is closer to GM’s birthplace of Flint. In fact, GM had been searching for a larger space to host its Heritage Center when the building in Grand Blanc Township became available in 2021.
Customer Care and After Sales employees were transferred to the GM Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, although many of them have been working remotely as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
At this time, the automaker has not yet indicated when the new GM Heritage Center will open and resume operations. Efforts to move the 600 vehicles and associated GM Heritage Archive, which contains over 8 million still photos, 250,000 videos, 1.5 million digital media files and over 1 million pieces of microfilms, will occur in phases.
“As General Motors transforms the future of the automobile, we also celebrate and commemorate our storied past and rich history with our fantastic GM Heritage Center,” said GM President Mark Reuss. “Placing it near our company’s birthplace only makes sense and, much like our investment in Factory One and in our current operations in the area, aligns perfectly with our strong commitment to Flint, where it all began for us.”
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All GM employees, both salaried and hourly, should be required (and paid) to tour the GM Heritage facility in it’s entirety. Then we can be assured that the unique character of GM vehicles will continue to be present in all of General Motor’s products. I would like to thank GM for continuing this highly important GM Heritage Center.
They should open to the public.
I have been there several times and it is awesome.
Maybe one day a week, max attendance of 50 people and staff with volunteer GM employees. It would be a privilege to be a tour guide there in my opinion.
Maybe Sundays from 1pm to,4pm.
Charge $50 a head.
it would sell out every Sunday once the word got out
Strong commitment to Flint! Tell me more about Buick City. Let’s face it Roger Smith and gm nuked Flint and it has never recovered. Thankfully the HD trucks come from Flint but gm can and should do more.
The heritage center looks to be a wonderful facility that unfortunately the public cannot enjoy. Why gm does not have a museum open to the public is just another marketing failure. One only has to go to the Harley -Davidson museum to understand the rich history of a proud company. While you’re in Wisconsin you may as well run down to Pontiac il. to see a proper Pontiac -Oakland museum.
While your on your way from the beer city stop in Kenosha and see the AMC collection,it is a public museum and will only cost you a couple bucks.
I hope they have more room to show more great cars like the spark,sonic,cimaron,cobalt and vega etc.etc.etc.
I completely agree that the GM’s Heritage Center is an amazing jewel which GM seems to hide from the public. I’ve been very lucky to have toured this small hidden facility in Sterling Heights 3 times and as a car lover each event was like being at Disney World. I hope this move to Flint indicates there is a plan to expand and hopefully create events that will include the general public. Not at $50/head though – that’s crazy money and “most” families cannot afford that. Moving this facility an hour north is a concern though. The current business plan allows for the place to be reserved for events – many are local community Chambers of Commerce that sell a limited amount of tickets to participate or Industry groups that also sell a limited amount to members to participate. Adding another hour drive will cause many to rethink their desire to join…..especially if it’s winter here in the great Mitten state. Best of luck and let’s hope this does not turn into another “AutoWorld”.
come on GM look how well the Corvette museum is doing!! Open it up to tours i would love to go!!