Building over the original Jeep plant

Detroit Manufacturing Systems has broken ground on a factory being built on the site of the original Willys-Overland plant, which started building Jeeps for World War II and was finally closed in 2010.  Ironically, it will make instrument clusters for the 2018 Jeep Wrangler.

The original plant was demolished in 2010, except for a sole smoke-stack on which the word “Overland” is spelled out in black bricks. It is still visible from Route 75.

The company, a joint venture between Rush Group and part of Faurecia, expects to have around 140 people at the plant by late 2017, and said it may have over 200 workers a few years later.  From Automotive News – read more there.