[CPEO-BIF] "Former massive Flint [Michigan] auto site looks completely different"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former massive Flint auto site looks completely different

by Eric D. Lawrence
Detroit Free Press (MI)
May 3, 2019

FLINT — A steady rain fell as the president of Kettering University took the wheel of a Chevy Bolt.

As he eased the quiet electric car forward, Robert McMahan Jr. explained that the test pad he was driving onto was flat and unbroken, without drains to move water off the "floodable" surface. 

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Moments later, he accelerated past some gathered geese and onto a sloping "road course" to show what Kettering, a university with close connections to the auto industry, has built on the site of what had been a brownfield after its life as part of "Chevy in the Hole," a formerly massive center of auto production on the Flint River. Nearby, several signs commemorate the area's place in automotive history, highlighting events such as the 44-day Flint Sit-Down Strike in 1936 and '37, which helped solidify the UAW.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/chrysler/2019/05/03/flint-kettering-mobility-research-brownfield/3642350002/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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