[CPEO-BIF] Chrysler warehouse, Windsor, Ontario

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Mammoth Chrysler warehouse rises from plant's ashes

 

RON STANG

Daily Commercial News (Canada)

April 26, 2012

 

WINDSOR, ONT. - It measures more than eight Canadian football fields and will be the largest single warehouse facility in Chrysler Group’s property portfolio when it opens here in late summer.

 

The new Chrysler Logistics Centre also is the highly successful story of reclaiming a long vacant brownfield site in the centre of this once bustling automobile and related factory town. Many of those former plants, well in use up to only 20 years ago, now lie dormant, with rusting loading docks and fences as municipal authorities seek ways to redevelop these hulks, often unsuccessfully.

 

In this case the site was the former home of the Chrysler Pillette road truck assembly plant, which built large and commercial vans, and was ironically built as recently as 1974. This was part of Canadian auto manufacturers’ rapid expansion of vehicle production in Canada under the auto pact with the United States. The pact required one vehicle to be built in Canada for every one sold here. But with the demise of the pact in 2001 and a lessening in that vehicle’s demand Chrysler halted production in 2003. Ironically Chrysler was still considering a future role for the site and had partially constructed a paint shop at the time of demolition.

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For the entire article, see

http://dcnonl.com/article/id49891/--mammoth-chrysler-warehouse-rises-from-plantrsquos-ashes

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Lenny Siegel

Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight

a project of the Pacific Studies Center

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Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545

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