[CPEO-BIF] Ford plant, Monroe, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Let's turn sour taste of Ford plant closing into lemonade

Opinion
Monroe News (MI)
December 7, 2008

It now appears that the final days of Ford Motor Co.'s Monroe plant are 
at hand.

Best estimates are that sometime early next year, after removing the 
last machines, fixtures and equipment, they'll turn out the lights and 
the place, effectively, will become an empty factory - a footnote in the 
historic decline of the U.S. auto industry.

Of course, everyone would like to see another industry move into the 
place to fill the huge economic void left by the facility.

But most who seem to be in the know also know that portions of the plant 
are too obsolete, too big and too inefficient to be of much more 
productive use to anyone.

It would be great if some new industry came in and bought the property, 
razed the old plant and put up a state-of-the-art high-tech place that 
would provide jobs to another three generations.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081207/SLATCOLUMN/112079986/-1/COLUMNISTS

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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