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Redevelopment plans unveiled Tuesday show Janesville's former General Motors plant site will rely heavily on an attribute few area industrial sites have: ready-made railroad infrastructure.
Demolition of the former General Motors plant in Janesville started in April 2018. We plan to regularly document the process with photos of what is being worked on at the plant. You can also view comparison photos of the demolition progress.
The owner of the former GM plant property plans to unveil "preliminary" redevelopment plans for the 250 acre property at a public open house on Tuesday.
The demolition of Janesville's General Motors plant has been going on for nearly fourth months. Compare photos of the demolition to see the progress.
Some neighbors who live and work next to the GM site have had a ringside seat for the plant's demolition.
Gears are starting to turn on the GM site’s prospects for redevelopment.
The former General Motors plant site has received a $500,000 grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to support demolition and redevelopment.
The city has received an grant to support the former General Motors plant’s redevelopment and will announce the grant’s terms in a Wednesday ceremony.
Commercial Development Company will hold a second online auction to sell extra equipment from the former General Motors plant.
Former state Sen. Tim Cullen is writing a book about the 25 years prior to the end of General Motors' vehicle production in December 2008. He will discuss details at a Democratic fundraiser Sunday, May 20.
The walls of the former General Motors assembly plant in Janesville started to come down Monday as the property’s new owner began to demolish the defunct 4.8 million-square-foot plant.
The city of Janesville wants permission from the city council to apply for a $500,000 state grant to help the former General Motors plant site's owner clear and ready the property for redevelopment.
The owner of the former Janesville General Motors assembly plant plans to make bricks from the plant available to residents as keepsakes to remember the plant after it's torn down.
Local real estate listings show Janesville's former GM plant site and the nearby former JATCO site are for sale for a combined $15.72 million. Both are owned by brownfield redevelopment specialist Commercial Development Company, and they're part of what's now called the "General Motors Redevelopment Campus."
Commercial Development Company, owner of Janesville's former General Motors plant, hasn't started demolishing the plant yet, but it has listed the property for sale as a redevelopment site for $7.45 million.
Commercial Development Company, the owner of the former General Motors assembly plant, says demolition of the building could start by April 1.
As demolition begins in coming weeks at the former General Motors assembly plant in Janesville, Blackhawk Community Credit Union has announced plans to create a “legacy center” to honor those who worked at the plant.
Public records filed this week show Commercial Development Company, the owner of the former General Motors property in Janesville, paid $9.6 million for it.
It’s likely that the former Janesville General Motors plant will no longer exist in a matter of months, the property’s new owner said in a press conference Thursday.
Wednesday's announcement that the defunct General Motors plant had been sold comes nearly nine years to the day after the last SUV rolled off the plant’s assembly lines on Dec. 23, 2008.
As Commercial Development Company moves toward a possible December 2017 purchase of the former General Motors assembly plant, The Gazette takes a look at some of the company's past projects.
By late 2018, the former General Motors plant could be nothing but piles of rubble and steel.
The company posed to buy the former General Motors plant by the end of the year will take over cleanup of contaminated sediment found in the Rock River nearby, said City Manager Mark Freitag.
A St. Louis industrial property redeveloper has announced it is the firm that's working to buy out Janesville's defunct General Motors assembly plant.
