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 From the air, the stark gray remains of Buick City, a sprawling Flint, Michigan, plot roughly bordered by East Pierson Street, East Wood Street, Industrial Avenue/North Street, and James P. Cole Boulevard, stand in contrast to the residential neighborhoods and commercial properties that surround it. Once, its 390 acres churned out new Buicks and employed nearly 30,000 workers, but today the space sits largely vacant and forgotten. Thanks to a $197,000 federal grant that focuses on remarketing the land, that may soon change.
Neither the rise nor fall of the property, which wasn’t known as Buick City until 1985, happened overnight. Construction began on the facility, then known as Buick’s north Flint complex, in 1906, and by 1908, Buick (then under the GM umbrella) was producing nearly 9,000 automobiles annually. Two years later, production had expanded so much that there simply wasn’t room to house all the new workers, prompting construction of temporary tent cities as a cost-effective solution.
Can something go right in Flint, Michigan for once?
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