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The 362 acres (1.46 km2) site was well integrated and home to a large Polish community. That is why it was referred to as Poletown, but was razed (in 1981), and converted to a $500 million assembly plant. Poletown was populated with some 4200 residents, the location for 1,400 homes, several churches, (including Immaculate Conception Church) and 140 businesses, including Chrysler's Dodge Main factory. The acquisition of the property through eminent domain, and destruction of this neighborhood was the subject of five years of protests and court battles. Eventually the case went to the Michigan Supreme Court, but this decision was criticized as a misuse of this power.[citation needed] Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit sided with General Motors, seeking new jobs and investment. Most who lived in the Metro Detroit area were aware that the plant would hurt the thousands who lived and worked in that Detroit-Hamtramck area, but because of the promise of three shifts of work, for thousands, did not back the protesters. Only those effected or disenfranchised really raised alarm. Many felt the City of Detroit had betrayed its own residents, but Mayor Coleman Young wanted the plant. Hamtramck, desperate for new revenue followed suit. The saddest hidden fact, was that the old Jewish cemetery, called Beth Olem, became an invisible casualty. Rather than require GM to pay to move the cemetery, Mayor Young let them build a block wall around it. To add insult to injury, the cemetery is essentially abandoned as visitation is nearly impossible. It is limited to twice a year on the Sundays preceding Rosh Hashana and Passover.



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The 2,990,000-square-foot (278,000 m2) factory, whose sister plant is the GM Lake Orion plant, was one of the most high-tech in the industry when it was built, and was part of a modernization effort for GM that also included the Buick City complex in Flint. Some of the advances in place included a modular paint system, electric (rather than hydraulic) robots, just-in-time deliveries, and a plan for paperless operations.[citation needed]



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Not everything worked as planned. The robots were notoriously unreliable and the plant's reliance on them was radically reduced. The E-body personal luxury cars manufactured at Poletown were also poorly received and soon cancelled. Cadillac K-body production was consolidated there in the 1990s, but sales were weakening. By the late 1990s, industry analysts were asking what went wrong at the factory. GM too seemed to be losing faith, cancelling the Epsilon platform crossovers due to be manufactured there and moving the Cadillac Eldorado to the Lansing Craft Centre. But production continued, and Detroit/Hamtramck produced large front-wheel drive cars for Buick and Cadillac. [citation needed] The Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly has since received the contract for the production of Chevrolet Volt, which uses the Delta II/Voltec body. On April 21, 2010 GM Announced it will invest $121 million dollars into the Hamtramck factory to ensure GM could keep up with the demand for the next generation Chevrolet MalibuIn May 2011 GM announced it will invest $69 million dollars in the plant for the Chevrolet Impala





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