Quote Originally Posted by mikeg19 View Post
While on the surface that may seem true, I don't think that quite is. The Ford campus plan has been in development for over 3 years dating back to 2013 when Alan Mulally was at Ford. Mark Fields has just taken over the plan and continued forward with it.

The GM investment into the Tech Center, if you speak with some Tech Center employees [[my dad included), is almost solely based on the August 2014 floods that crippled the Tech Center. They lost a couple hundred millions in tooling and labs. Some of their infrastructure systems were damaged or destroyed as well. So that kinda pushed them into updating studios, offices, etc. If that flood hadn't have happened, I don't believe that you'd see that investment.
GM Tech Center Master Planning dates back to 2010. The flood certainly jump started some of the work...but there's a lot the public and GM employees weren't aware of prior to the major announcement last year.