Automotive provider Magna Seating is planning a 300,000-square-foot (27,870-square-metre) plant and 500 new jobs in suburban Detroit close to the Orion Meeting Plant of buyer Common Motors.
The $100 million (all figures in USD) just-in-time seating plant is anticipated to be constructed on 40 acres (16 hectares) at 1700 Brown Highway, based on an Auburn Hills, Mich., planning fee doc.
Magna confirmed the mission funding and dimension in addition to the variety of jobs spurred by new enterprise from GM. The roles shall be UAW-represented.
“We’re working with town of Auburn Hills and the State of Michigan on a possible new facility that may finally provide GM’s Lake Orion Meeting Plant and Manufacturing facility Zero,” spokeswoman Tracy Fuerst stated in an e mail to Crain’s Detroit Enterprise, an affiliate of Automotive Information Canada.
The Canadian firm, which has a big presence in metro Detroit, will function the plant because the “unique provider” to “all the electrical SUVs and vehicles” produced at Orion Meeting, the mission description stated.
The GM meeting plant is present process a $4 billion electrical conversion, and the automaker stated final yr it anticipated to churn out Chevrolet Silverado EVs and electrical GMC Sierra pickups beginning in 2024.
Building of Magna’s seating plant is anticipated to start in July and be full by November 2024.
CONQUEST CONTRACT
The GM seating contract marks an enormous win for Magna. Southfield-based competitor Lear Corp. has been the seating provider on GM’s Silverado and GMC Sierra applications and introduced a yr in the past that it received the contract for the 2024 Silverado EV being constructed at Manufacturing facility Zero.
GM declined to say the way it determined upon its seating suppliers.
“For aggressive causes, we don’t publicly talk about particulars associated to provider agreements,” GM spokesman Dan Flores advised Crain’s.
The event on the previous web site of Oakland County Animal Management is being led by Common Growth Co., which together with Friedman Actual Property purchased the property in 2021 for $3.7 million.
As soon as constructed, the constructing shall be leased to Magna, although the lease has not but been finalized, Fuerst stated.
“The town council has had a long-standing strategic aim to arrange underutilized properties for redevelopment,” based on the planning doc. “The work concerned with making ready this property is a first-rate instance of the Metropolis Council’s imaginative and prescient being applied.”
The planning doc stated the Magna plant will function with three shifts — the primary consisting of 250-300 workers — and function 5 days per week, with work on the weekends primarily based on GM’s wants.
The quantity of native and state incentives being hunted for the mission weren’t disclosed. The Michigan Financial Growth Corp. declined remark.
“It could be untimely to debate particulars of any potential mission that will or might not go earlier than the Michigan Strategic Fund board,” spokesman Otie McKinley stated in an e mail.
The proposed plant is scheduled to go earlier than the planning fee board Wednesday for approval of the positioning plan and a tree removing allow.
In line with the plan, about 165,000 sq. toes (15,329 sq. metres) of the plant can be store house, 85,000 sq. toes (7,895 sq. metres) can be warehouse and the remaining 30,000 sq. toes (2,787 sq. metres) can be for workplace.
Magna has been on an electrical spending spree in Michigan lately. The corporate introduced in October it might make investments $530 million in new and present vegetation in Highland Park, Shelby Township and St. Clair whereas creating 1,569 jobs to assist new enterprise from automakers.
In the meantime, Lear introduced in December that it might make investments $112.5 million and create as much as 500 new jobs in Michigan, together with an $80 million EV battery components plant in Independence Township.