For the people, with the people
Posted on November 3, 2009 at 7:27 am
Spring Hill Mayor Michael Dinwiddie has begun working the line at GM’s Spring Hill plant, where the last Chevy Traverse will roll off the line in three weeks.
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No Lowe’s for Spring Hill
Posted on October 20, 2009 at 10:10 am
The home improvement retailer has hired Atlantic Retail Properties to sell an acre where it had planned to build its second Spring Hill store. The company runs about 15 outlets in the Nashville area.
A milestone for Spring Hill engine plant
Posted on September 17, 2009 at 7:15 am
The powertrain workers at GM’s Spring Hill complex recently cranked out their 2 millionth Ecotec engine.
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‘Without a reasonably sound factual basis’
Posted on September 4, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman has overruled the Tennessee Health Services Development Agency’s decision to let HCA build a $104 million, 56-bed hospital in Spring Hill. In her ruling, Bonnyman said the agency’s decision was “arbitrary and capricious and is unsupported in the record by substantial and material evidence.” Nashville-based HCA can appeal the decision to the Tennessee Court of Appeals.
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American Constructors starts on Spring Hill school
Posted on August 28, 2009 at 6:38 am
The Brentwood-based contractor will manage the construction of the $30 million Spring Hill High School and has begun $2 million worth of site work.
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What we were up against
Posted on July 7, 2009 at 2:08 pmIn Tennessee’s losing bid for a new General Motors operation in Spring Hill, a Wisconsin news outlet is reporting that that state was offering up to $200 million in incentives. And even it eventually lost out to a facility in Orion Township north of Detroit.
Janesville’s release says the $200 million offer included $38 million worth of incentives from Beloit, Janesville and Rock County.
Boutwell says Rock County promised $20 million in incentives. Janesville says it offered $15 million plus savings of up to $1 million a year by offering to operate the plant’s wastewater facility. Beloit offered $2 million.
GM last month selected a facility in Orion Township north of Detroit to assemble small and compact cars over Janesville and another finalist in Spring Hill, Tenn., near Nashville.
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So much for the overhaul
Posted on June 26, 2009 at 1:16 amOne thing Spring Hill thought it had going for it was that GM had poured hundreds of millions into the plant in recent years to update its lines.
“It just kinda doesn’t seem to make sense… Why not take advantage of it?”
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A word from the winner
Posted on at 12:47 amThe relief about GM’s decision Thursday is palpable in Michigan, with public officials and residents taking turns sighing and praising the incentive package that helped sway the auto maker.
Michigan’s congressional delegation also lobbied heavily to bring the small car to the state. All 17 members sent a letter to GM last week saying that the state’s economic woes made the project important for Michigan. Peters had begun a “Make it in Michigan!” campaign that collected over 28,000 signatures.
SEE ALSO: The dejection and frustration in Wisconsin, where one union rep says, “In my mind, it didn’t matter what we brought to the table. Janesville did all it could do, and the people on the task force really busted their butts trying to get something here, but GM is trying to move everything to Michigan.”
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Looking beyond Spring Hill’s shock
Posted on June 25, 2009 at 8:34 pmOne longtime GM Spring Hill employee keeps his chin up after reports today that the auto maker has chosen a Michigan plant to build its next-generation small car.
“I am a person who believes you have got a great work force. You have a great plant. General Motors is separating the bad GM from the good and reinventing themselves and looking for a new path to take. I would think they understand they have a valuable asset there.”
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Report: Spring Hill loses out
Posted on at 4:00 pmA source is telling the AP that Orion Township has been chosen to make General Motors’ next-generation small car.
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GM decision day nears
Posted on June 24, 2009 at 1:57 pm
A Michigan congressman says the auto maker may decide as early as this week where to build its next-gen small car. A GM spokeswoman says June 30 is the deadline for the choice between Spring Hill, Orion Township or Janesville.
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Putting GM’s new plant in Spring Hill to shut up Bob Corker
Posted on June 16, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Tennessee’s junior senator has been a thorn in the side of the Obama administraton during the auto crisis. Nolan Finley of The Detroit News says that may actually end up working in Spring Hill’s favor.
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Orion Township has $44M for GM
Posted on at 3:39 pmThe Michigan town competing with Spring Hill and a Wisconsin plant has lined up a number of incentives to sway General Motors, which will soon decide where to build its next-gen small car. Gov. Bredesen last week said he’s not interested in paying hundreds of millions to help GM make its choice.
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Spring Hill launches site to save its plant
Posted on June 15, 2009 at 8:19 amCity officials have built a Web site to make the case for its General Motors factory over facilities in Michigan and Wisconsin. One of the three will be chosen for GM’s next-generation small car.
HT: Cindy Carter at Fox 17
GM small-car decision coming ‘in a few weeks’
Posted on June 10, 2009 at 3:19 pmOfficials at the auto maker say they have begun formal talks with representatives from Tennessee, Michigan and Wisconsin as well as federal officials about where they will build their planned next-generation small car.
Emerging from a meeting with Tennessee officials — the first of three meetings with state and federal delegations on Wednesday — Clarke said he wanted to lay out what GM was looking for in a new site.
“I think a lot of (the discussion) was just getting an understanding,” he said. “We wanted to make ourselves available to answer questions at whatever level of detail the state delegations wanted.”
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