Grand Rapids, MI: GM Plant

(Satellite, closed in 2009 and torn down between 2010 and 2012)

If You Grew Up in Grand Rapids/Kent County,then you remember.... posted
Ron Vance 92 acres, 1937-2009
[There are a lot of comments about GM building this plant to bust the unions in some other plants. But I'm sticking with my tradition of focusing on technology and physical changes while ignoring topics of politics, greed, regulation, lawsuits, management by ego, etc.]

Michael Johnston commented on the above posting
Huge presses required re-enforced concrete floors. Press room in the 1960s.
Dave Rockwell Brings back all that boom, boom, boom into my head

Ron Vance commented on the above posting
The last wall to go down

Ron Vance commented on the above postingThe bridge to nowhere
[This has recently been taken down also. Did they finally figure out how to take it apart with disrupting traffic too much?]

Satellite

Another change that can help determine the timeliness of satellite images.

Satellite

I took a snapshot of the whole thing in case they ever redevelop the land so that we can still see its current sorry state.