Seiji Maeda, who had led the supplier's motor business unit in Japan, replaced Kenichiro Ito in the role.

The startup, which plans to go public through a reverse merger, said it will build initial battery pack and electric motor prototypes as well as complete preproduction vehicles at the new location.

Gerard Roose, the current vice president of sales, marketing and product development at Inteva, will replace Offenbacher this month at the interiors and closures supplier.

Lear's improvement in sales is hinged on increased market share, considering global production for Lear declined 3 percent during the quarter compared with a year earlier.

The supplier, which recently acquired Delphi Technologies, saw sales growth in its drivetrain business.

A spokesman for Tenneco said the decision to abandon the office move — which was a consolidation of employees in three southeast Michigan locations — "made prudent business sense."

Visteon, which originally spun off from Ford Motor Co. about 20 years ago, has been shrinking for several years, spending much of the previous decade paring off business units.

Longtime Detroit area auto dealer Bob Shuman said he also has stepped down from his roles at the National Automobile Dealers Association as a board member and 2020 treasurer.

Employees escaped the blaze unharmed, but it remains unclear how much damage could be done to the company's business with customers such as General Motors.

Cavnue, the developer of the planned autonomous corridor between Detroit and Ann Arbor, hired former U.S. Department of Transportation Under Secretary Tyler Duvall as its CEO. Mark de la Vergne, former chief mobility officer for the city of Detroit, was named director of the firm's Michigan office.

Kimberly Rodriguez, a longtime turnaround consultant in the auto industry and current CEO of Andra Rush's trucking empire Rush Trucking, will become Dura's new CEO, effective Sept. 1.

Magna plans to add 5,000 square feet to the plant, as well as at least 100 parking spaces and three shipping docks. It also will renovate current space as part of the expansion. Two new automated storage and retrieval systems will be added.

Lear's safety protocols include strenuous cleaning regimens, temperature checks, plexiglass guards in high-traffic areas and more. The company also is testing new technologies.

Lear held an open house, of sorts, for its production line leaders to get them acclimated with the rigorous new safety protocols as the plant is set to begin limited production Monday. Crain's Detroit Business reporter Dustin Walsh got a first-hand look.

The seating and electronics supplier said net income fell 67 percent to $76.4 million during the quarter while revenue fell 11 percent to $4.6 billion. The COVID-19 downturn took $900 million out of sales during the quarter.