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How Detroit landed $95 million Flex-N-Gate deal
Flex-N-Gate's
rapid growth through acquisitions and new contracts shows that
automakers are increasingly confident in the supplier's ability to take
on additional work and make high-tech parts.
The
city of Detroit — a community plagued by chronic unemployment – scored a
major manufacturing win this week with automotive supplier Flex-N-Gate
committing to a $95 million investment in a failed industrial park
that's sat vacant for nearly 15 years.
On Wednesday,
Pakistani-born billionaire Shahid Khan stood on an empty, 30-acre lot
with Detroit Mayor Duggan and promised to build a modern, high-tech
factory that will employ hundreds of workers. Khan vowed to hire as many
Detroit residents as possible.
Initially, Flex-N-Gate plans to invest $95 million to
build a new plant to supply parts to Ford Motor Co. that will create
about 400 jobs. That investment could double over time and lead to a
total of 750 jobs.
The deal to bring Flex-N-Gate to an
impoverished, desolate part of the city came together in just six
months, said Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and happened, in part, because of
the personal involvement of Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford.
Khan,
who has been accused by the UAW of underpaying workers at factories in
Texas and elsewhere, said the jobs at the future Detroit factory will
pay "in the mid-to-high $20s per hour," as local pastors and community
organizers applauded.
"The headline is about jobs. Hundreds of
outstanding, well-paying jobs," Khan said. "The kinds of jobs that were
really the backbone of the middle class and really the definition of the
American dream when I came here in '67."
Flex-N-Gate will build
what Khan described as a modern, high-tech factory at the 186-acre I-94
Industrial Park located near I-94 and I-75.
"We are very, very
excited that this project will bring jobs right here in our
community," said Quincy Jones, executive director of the Osborn
Neighborhood Alliance. "We have seen this land unused and undeveloped
for years….now this land will be back in use again."
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