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

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

NUMMI site a jewel that could take decades to shine

By Matthew Artz
Oakland Tribune (CA)
April 5, 2010

FREMONT - When General Motors Corp. set up shop in Fremont 48 years ago, 
the company was building cars and trucks in an unpopulated and 
inexpensive Bay Area backwater.

There was no Silicon Valley, no BART and no Oakland A's. Even Interstate 
680, just east of the plant, was still under construction.

But when the last Toyota Corolla rolled off the NUMMI assembly line last 
week, it did so firmly within the boundaries of the nation's largest 
technology corridor and the Bay Area's fourth largest city, where the 
average home fetches more than $500,000.

The NUMMI site is about as prime as East Bay real estate can get, 
developers say.

The plant sits on 370 acres - about the size of downtown San Francisco - 
sandwiched between two freeways and less than a mile from a BART station 
scheduled to open in four years.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_14805743

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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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