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The modernist glass-facade of the rounded towers skyscraper of the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit, Michigan, is the world headquarters of General Motors, since 1996. The history of General Motors (GM), one of the world's largest car and truck manufacturers, dates back more than a century and involves a vast scope of industrial activity ...
General Motors Company (GM) [2] is an American multinational automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. [3] The company is most known for owning and manufacturing four automobile brands: Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac, each a separate division of GM.
The GM Technical Center was inaugurated in 1956 as General Motors's primary design and engineering center, located in Warren, Michigan. In 2000 the center was listed on the National Register of Historic Places , and fourteen years later it was designated a National Historic Landmark , primarily for its architecture.
His son and daughter-in-law, Eugene and Virginia, created Kettering Medical Center in Ohio, as a tribute to Charles Kettering's life and his work in healthcare research. On January 1, 1998, the former General Motors Institute changed its name to Kettering University to honor Kettering as a founder. [29]
In May 2016, General Motors began construction on a $900 million new body shop at the Flint Truck Assembly complex. The project was first announced in 2015 and replaces the old body shop. The new body shop is a separate building that is connected to both the Flint Metal Center stamping plant to the south and the main assembly plant to the ...
The only remaining buildings are Building 35 and Plant 38. Building 35 (originally housing new-car delivery and, later, heat treatment) was donated to Kettering University (originally General Motors Institute) in 1996. After the addition of another floor and a new facade, it houses the university's Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry Center ...
Wentzville Assembly is a General Motors automobile assembly facility in Wentzville, Missouri, opened in 1983. [1] Located at 1500 East Route A in Wentzville, the 3.7 million square foot plant sits on 569 acres approximately 40 miles west of St. Louis, just off of I-70.
Pontiac West Assembly (also known as GMC Truck & Coach, GM Truck Validation Center and Pontiac Centerpoint Campus Validation Center) was a General Motors manufacturing facility located in Pontiac, Michigan.