This was all done very quietly. The head of UAW Local 1292 says he didn't know about it. Grand Blanc's city manager says the city wasn't informed. And a GM spokesman says the media wasn't told about it, either.
The tower loomed large above the plant. We're not sure when it was built, but the plant was built in 1947.
"We were able to get the funding, post-bankruptcy, now. Things are starting to pick up for the company, so we can finish some projects that we started or were trying to start prior to the economic crisis that we were in," spokesman Tom Wickham said.
"So it's just a mater of cleaning up the land, making it safer. By grading the land, you minimize safety risk, and making it look nice."
Wickham says an old stamping plant was also demolished on the site within the past year and some metal work was removed.
At one time there were 3,000 union workers on the site, but that number now stands at about 400, according to Local 1292.
