L’équipementier automobile Adient se rapproche de ses clients et annonce
l’installation de son siège social au cœur de Detroit à quelques encablures du
siège de Général Motors.
Cette installation annonce l’arrivée de 500
employés et donc autant de logements à pourvoir.
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Frank Witsil , Detroit Free
Press November 30, 2016
Auto seat maker Adient announces move to Detroit
Automotive
seat manufacturer Adient announced today that it is moving its global
headquarters to the Motor City. Non
"This
is a really big day for us," Adient Chairman and CEO Bruce McDonald
said at a news conference at Cobo Center, across the street from
where it expects to move into within two years. "It's an exciting
announcement for both our company, employees and the city of Detroit."
Adient,
which was spun off
in October from Johnson Controls, purchased the historic Marquette
Building at 243 W. Congress and will turn it into its new
headquarters, bringing about 500 jobs to Detroit. About 100 of them will be
new, and the other 400 mostly will be from other Adient offices throughout
Michigan.
Adient aims
to spend $50 million or more to renovate the 10-story,
164,000-square-foot building. The purchase price was not
disclosed. Adient also plans to invest another $75 million to $100
million to renovate and consolidate its research offices and labs in Plymouth.
But the
big win for the city, officials said, is that another major corporation,
in addition to those such as General Motors, DTE and Ally
Financial, will call Detroit home.
"We've
had a pretty remarkable last seven days," Mayor Mike Duggan said at the
news conference announcing the move. He listed recent achievements: "The Pistons
returning home after 40 years, the announcement yesterday of the
largest new neighborhood built in the city in decades. But in many ways
this announcement with Adient is the most extraordinary of all."
Adient has
an expected annual revenue of $17 billion next year, not including an additional
$15 billion from joint ventures with other companies.
Duggan said
Adient's decision is "a message to every major company in America that
Detroit is a place that you want to be."
In wooing Adient
from Milwaukee, the Michigan Economic Development
Corp. negotiated a $2-million Michigan Business Development Program
performance-based grant.
The
Marquette Building where Advent is moving their headquarters downtown Detroit
on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. (Photo: Romain Blanquart, Detroit Free Press)
The
renovation plans for the Marquette Building have not been finalized,
but McDonald promised to "bring it back to its former
splendor" — inside and out, restoring it to the way it originally looked
when it was built in 1905. The company also aims to design it to have bright,
open, collaborative work spaces; a showroom, food services and
rooftop terraces.
"It's a
landmark building that's going to reflect our image and what we want to be
known as," McDonald said.
Adient also
bought an adjacent parking garage, he said.
McDonald
said the company will keep about 80 employees in Milwaukee, where it
is currently based.
In addition,
he said, the company will remain domiciled in Ireland for tax purposes.
Most of
Adient's top executives — including McDonald — will work and live in metro
Detroit, he said. He said he has not decided if he will live in the city.
"I
think people are going to recognize — like we've recognized — that this is an
exciting place," McDonald said. "One of the big reasons why we
decided to move downtown, as opposed to stay in the suburbs, is we recognize
that the next generation of employees — millennials — they don't want to work
in the suburbs, they want to work downtown where the action is."
Another plus
for the auto supplier is that it will be in the Motor City and based directly
across the street from Cobo Center, the home of one of the most important auto
shows in the world.
Adient —
pronounced with the emphasis on Ad — is a publicly traded company listed on the
New York Stock Exchange. The company has about 75,000 employees worldwide
in 230 offices, labs and manufacturing facilities in 33 countries. In
Latin, a spokeswoman for the company said, the name means "to move forward
toward a stimulus."
Marquette Building
Address: 243 W. Congress
Built: 1905
Stories: 10
Square feet: 164,000
Purchase
price: Undisclosed
Cost to
renovate: $50 million
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