[CPEO-BIF] NUMMI plant, Fremont, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[NUMMI, until recently a joint venture of Toyota and GM, is the last 
major auto plant in the San Francisco Bay Area. It will be difficult for 
its skilled workforce to recover from the planned shutdown, but located 
on the edge of Silicon Valley, the property itself is likely to be 
redeveloped, even under current economic conditions. - LS]


Options weighed at NUMMI plant in Fremont


by David Goll
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
September 28, 2009

FREMONT - The big question now for NUMMI is, "What's next?"

Barring a dramatic reversal from Toyota Motor Corp., redevelopment 
appears to be in the future of the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. 
plant, which is scheduled to cease production in March.

Fremont city leaders including Mayor Bob Wasserman say they prefer to 
see the site remain a manufacturing facility, though they view its 
continued operation as an automobile plant a longshot. Attracting 
cleantech companies to the 5.3 million-square-foot plant will be a major 
priority, Wasserman said.

Other potential uses include retail, residential or a mixed-use 
commercial project featuring office, retail, residential and hotel 
development, he added.

But each option has its associated complications, including any 
environmental cleanup costs at the site. And because the potential uses 
are so varied, no one is ready to speculate what cleanup and 
redevelopment might be.


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For the entire article, see
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/09/28/story3.html?b=1254110400%5E2161201

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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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