[CPEO-BIF] NUMMI auto plant, Fremont, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Municipal Transition Team Assesses Needs as Auto Plant Closure Looms

by  Lance Howland
PublicCEO.com
October 5, 2009

Municipal officials in Fremont and Alameda County are gathering 
resources to plan the next use for the environs of an auto manufacturing 
plant, due to close April 1, 2010.

"Our focus right now is dealing with transitions for the workers, the 
suppliers and the communities," said Bruce Kern, executive director of 
the East Bay Economic Development Alliance, in an early October interview.

The closing of the NUMMI plant, a groundbreaking alliance between 
General Motors and Toyota a quarter-century ago, is a significant 
earthquake in the tectonic shifts now rearranging the American auto 
industry.

NUMMI, which has been Alameda County's largest private employer, stands 
for New United Motor Manufacturing Inc.

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There will be a public-private planning process, Fields said. It's 
similar to a military base closure, he added, where a number of 
possibilities may emerge simultaneously. "It's a land use opportunity 
that's bigger than the plant itself," he said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.publicceo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=683:municipal-transition-team-assesses-needs-as-auto-plant-closure-looms&catid=11:local-governments-editorial&Itemid=20

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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
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