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New Plans Slow Down Construction of $1-Bil GM Car Plant

DETROIT-Construction in Delta Township near Lansing of a manufacturing plant has been temporarily halted by the automaker. Plans changed have due to a slowing of the economy and product selection.

By Robert Carr | Updated on February 08, 2001

DETROIT-Construction of a new car plant by General Motors Corp. in Delta Township near Lansing is being slowed on purpose, while company officials change plans to make the plant more efficient for the new economy, and for the new product. GM is investing approximately $1 billion into the new vehicle manufacturing complex inDelta Township.

“We’ve adjusted the construction schedule to be more commiserate with product planning,” spokeswoman Reneé Rashid-Merem tells GlobeSt.com. “Based on the different types of vehicles selected for manufacture there, we’ve found we have more time than anticipated.”

This is the second major production facility launched in theLansing area this year. It will be the second totally new vehicle assembly operation built by GM in the US since the Saturn plant was built in 1986. The first was theLansing Grand River assembly plant, which was announced in January and isnow under construction in the city of Lansing.

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