General Motors is contemplating the previous Palace of Auburn Hills in suburban Detroit web site for a big area for suppliers, in response to Crain’s Detroit Business, an affiliate of Automotive News.
GM wouldn’t affirm on Thursday night it was trying on the centrally positioned 110-acre property that used to accommodate the Detroit Pistons, however did say it was contemplating Auburn Hills, together with different “multiple locations for a supplier park to support its Orion Assembly Plant, which will be expanded to produce electric pickup trucks.”
But a supply requesting anonymity and briefed on the matter informed Crain’s that GM was trying on the Palace web site.
Auburn Hills Mayor Kevin McDaniel mentioned no plans have been submitted to the town to redevelop the location.
The Orion Assembly Plant is at 4555 Giddings Rd., and consists of 4.3 million sq. toes on 433 acres, at present producing Chevy Bolt EV and EUV, and Cruise AV. The official plant web site says it’s “positioning itself to support GM’s goal to bring 30 new EVs to market globally by 2025.”
A location for the GM provider park has not but been decided, however it could possibly be north of 1 million sq. toes, sources have mentioned.
Messages have been left with prime executives of Livonia-based Schostak Bros. & Co. and the Detroit Pistons proprietor Tom Gores, which co-own the location that paid $22 million for it in 2019.
Demolition on the Palace, the place the Pistons performed from 1988 to 2017 earlier than shifting to Little Caesars Arena, started that 12 months.
Source: www.autonews.com