Drone Images of the Demolished GM Plant, Lansing
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Well, you could’ve called it ‘paradise’ if you so desired, but it was actually the General Motors automobile assembly factory, later known as the Lansing Craft Center.
Located at 2801 West Saginaw, the plant was originally the "Oldsmobile Differential Plant and Foundry" as built by GM in 1919. In 1984 it became the "Reatta Craft Centre" when it began manufacturing the Buick Reatta. After a stamping plant, body shop, and assembly area were added, Reatta production started in 1988.
When the Reatta pooped out, the plant became the Lansing Craft Centre, manufacturing “low-volume vehicles including the EV1, Cadillac Eldorado, convertible Chevrolet Cavalier and Pontiac Sunfire and Chevrolet SSR.”
In November 2005, GM told the world the Lansing Craft Center would permanently close in 2006, and the final vehicle, a black-on-silver SSR, was cranked out on March 17, 2006.
To a crowd of onlookers, the plant began its demolition in 2008 and completed in 2009. All 985,000 square feet was destroyed, leaving 400 employees to find work elsewhere. Some ended up at the Lansing Grand River Assembly and others at the Lansing Delta Township Assembly.
The drone images seen below show the barren site of the once-majestic GM plant.
Drone Over the Old GM Plant
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