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Overview

In the past several decades, General Motors plants in Genesee County have endured complicated renamings, management shifts, closures, and spinoffs.

Plant history

Buick Motor Division

Division HQ and Assembly, Engine, Parts Plants/Buick City/Powertrain Flint North

Hamilton Ave. Oldest buildings opened 1904.

This is far and away the largest GM complex in the world. Buick originally opened in Flint on W. Kearsley St.; this plant closed soon after the Hamilton site opened.

In 1983, Buick announced plans for Buick City, inspired by Toyota's "Toyota City" plant, which would combine Buick's assembly and Fisher #1's body-building operations. Production of rear-wheel drive cars at Buick's Hamilton Ave. plant ceased. After extensive gutting, installation of robots and other new tooling, and the construction of a new body shop and just-in-time delivery docks, Buick City began building front-wheel drive vehicles in 1985.

Buick Motor Division became merely a marketing and public relations entity in 1984, when the Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac Group (BOC) was created and took over engineering and assembly control from Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, and the GM Assembly Div. (dissolved in 1984).

GM created the Flint Automotive Div. to manage BOC's activities in Genesee County, which included the former Buick factories and engineering. BOC dissolved in 1992 and eventually its functions were transferred to the Cadillac/Luxury Car Division (not to be confused with the Cadillac Motor Car Division, the traditional Cadillac operation).

Buick City closed in June 1999. It and some other former Buick buildings not technically part of Buick City were demolished from 2001 to 2003. Buick Motor Div. administration moved to Detroit in 1998. The 1960s former Buick World HQ building, after briefly housing EDS workers until 2003, was demolished in 2006.

Adjacent former Buick transmission, transmission parts, engine assembly, and engine parts plants remain open, known as GM Powertrain Flint North. However, GM announced in 2005 that the 3800 V6 Engine Plant will close in 2009. According to GM’s website, 1,152 hourly and 217 salaried workers are at Powertrain Flint North.

AC Spark Plug Division/Delphi Corporation

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