Detroit poised to land 500-job parts plant at AMC site, Duggan says

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Nice to have 500 jobs coming to the city, but I wish they would save the HQ Building though.

"We are about to land another 500-employee parts plant, and what the federal government has done has given us a whole range of tools to bring jobs — good paying jobs — back to the city," Duggan said of the former AMC site. "We're knocking down the 40-year-old, abandoned building over there. We'll have another parts plant there, and we're in conversation with several other manufacturers."Duggan spoke to The Detroit News after meeting with Biden administration officials at the White House about how the city has been spending pandemic relief funds from the American Rescue Plan and about the benefits of recent legislation to fund clean energy, infrastructure and domestic semiconductor chip manufacturing.

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New laws recently signed by President Joe Biden creating federal incentives for clean energy and semiconductor production paired with the availability of federal funding for demolition has helped make Detroit more competitive for attracting jobs and businesses, Duggan said.

"We've become very expert at packaging, and I just pitched to a California manufacturing company that was looking at 1,000 jobs last week, and I showed him the ways all of the bills benefit [[them) if you come to the city of Detroit," Duggan said. "You know, seven or eight years ago, no manufacturing company looked to Detroit. We hadn't a new plant in 20 years. And now we're landing them every six months."

He gave the other example of Lear's supplier facility slated to bring 450 jobs to the site of the former Cadillac Stamping Plant on Detroit’s east side and make parts for GM’s Factory Zero Assembly Facility.
What's making the difference in part, the mayor said, is having the resources now to clear industrial sites, using ARP and other funds.

"When you get a manufacturer looking to make a decision, and they have two corn fields and a site in Detroit with a 30-year-old abandoned factory has got to be cleared out first — we've been at a competitive disadvantage," Duggan said. "Now, we've got the resources to go in and clean those sites out. All I need is a level playing field, and we'll win."