GM to invest $1 billion to expand, renovate Mich. tech center

General Motors, in a long expected boost for its r&d activities, will invest $1 billion to expand and renovate operations at its technical center in suburban Detroit.The plans for the 310-acre campus in Warren, Mich., include new design studios and a multi-story IT building. The project also includes substantial renovations to existing r&d facilities, construction to accommodate additional testing areas and extensive office upgrades, GM said today in a statement.GM product chief Mark Reuss said work is "already underway" on the long anticipated project, which won municipal tax abatements in April. "The need to attract high quality employees is the real need," Reuss said at today's press conference. "We're not here to be competitive, we're here to win. So when we do this in Warren, we’re not trying to compete, we’re trying to win."Work is set to wrap up by 2018. The project is expected to generate about 2,600 new jobs once it is completed.“In a stressed company, you have to take a strategic look at the way we design, engineer and develop cars with quality and excellence, and you look at how that has to change,” Reuss told journalists. “Over the last year and a half it was really crystallized here.”“We’re going to do it for the future -- future engineers and designers and IT people and purchasing people -- everything that is used to create products will be here.” Historic Landmark

GM to invest $1 billion to expand, renovate Mich. tech center

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