When Governor Milliken and Mayor Young were promoting the erection of GM's Detroit Hamtramck assembly plant several decades ago, they suggested that one of the benefits would be that quite a few parts manufacturers would locate nearby thereby boosting employment in Detroit and Hamtramck. That did not happen. There was a new building constructed adjacent to the Hamtramck assembly plant but it was for incarceration.

Stellantis invested upwards of $3.3 billion in remodeling the Jefferson North plants and building a new assembly plant for the three bench Jeep Cherokee. Dakkota Integrated Systems from Brighton purchased the nearby abandoned Kettering high school and spent $55 million reconfiguring that site for the manufacture of interior components for Jeeps. Next Lear purchased the former Cadillac stamping plant on Conner and is erected a new building for the production of parts for the plants at Jefferson North. What is different now? Will we
soon see someone establishing a parts plant at Southwestern High School or other similar large but underutilized building in and near Detroit?