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There was a time when plenty of car plants dotted the landscape of Detroit, from the Packard Plant on the east side to the Cadillac plant on Clark Street in southwest.
But over the decades, some companies went out of businesses and the survivors began to decentralize, moving some plants out to the suburbs and the Midwest and eventually the Sunbelt.
Still, to this day, the city has been able to hang on to one of its fonder monikers, the Motor City, even though few plants still exist within the city limits. Of the Big Three headquarters, only General Motors is in Detroit.
Now, Detroit is about to have one less plant.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced it will permanently shut its Conner Avenue Assembly Plant on the east side, home to the Dodge Viper sports car, effective Aug. 31, the automaker said in a notice to the state, Melissa Burden of The Detroit News reports.
The company expects to offer the 87 employees affected by plant closure jobs at other FCA locations.
Now, there are even fewer plants.
Fiat Chrysler still builds the Jeep Grand Cherokee at the nearby Jefferson North Assembly Plant and GM builds the Buick LaCrosse, Cadillac CT6, Chevrolet Impala and Chevrolet Volt at the Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly, according to the business site Benzinga.
