June 1982: Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, Hamtramck Mayor Robert Kozaren, and General Motors Chairman Roger Smith pose before the remains of Chrysler’s former Dodge Main plant at a formal project groundbreaking in May 1981. The feature story opens: “As America, and particularly urban America, struggles to come to terms with the meaning of “deindustrialization,” and “public-private economic cooperation,” the Central Industrial Park Project, which involves the relocation within Detroit of General Motors’ Cadillac Assembly operations into a new three-million-square-foot plant, is an interesting and important prototype.
From the Urban Land Institute Archives: Rebuilding Detroit
The June 1982 issue of Urban Land. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, Hamtramck Mayor Robert Kozaren, and General Motors Chairman Roger Smith pose before the remains of Chrysler’s former Dodge Main plant at a formal project groundbreaking in May 1981.
David C. Turnley
