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Jefferson North Assembly Plant is a Chrysler automobile assembly factory in Detroit, Michigan. Located on East Jefferson Avenue 6 mi from downtown, near Grosse Pointe Park, the factory opened in 1991 as a major commitment to the downtown Detroit area by Chrysler, and was expanded in 1999, bringing its area to 2700000sqft and expanded again in 2011, bringing its total to 3000000sqft. Its first product was the Jeep Grand Cherokee from the start, which it continues to produce to this day. It uses the original site of the Hudson Motor Company location that was originally built during the 1940s as a storage lot for newly manufactured vehicles to the east of the facility.HistoryJefferson North is the only auto assembly plant that is entirely within the city limits. A second plant, Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly owned by General Motors, where Cadillacs are manufactured, is partly in Detroit and partly in the neighboring city of Hamtramck.Chrysler announced in August 2008 a 1.8-billion-dollar investment in the plant that would expand it by 285000sqft and upgrade the facility for the production of a new product in 2010. Improvements in the plant occurred during a period of intense corporate turmoil for the parent company. Daimler-Benz had sold its majority stake to Cerberus Capital Management in 2007. Cerberus and the United Auto Workers agreed in 2007 to a plan whereby entry workers are paid $16/hour compared to $28 for long-term UAW employees. The Cerberus-owned company went into bankruptcy in 2009 with the company getting a multibillion-dollar bailout by the United States government before ultimately being acquired by Fiat in 2011.
For the first time since mid-April, the turnstiles twirled at Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly plant in Detroit as workers returned to their jobs, greeted by plant manager Richard Housel. Since they last built Jeep Grand Cherokees and Commanders, the new Chrysler Group LLC was created during the short bankruptcy process with new leadership from Italian automaker Fiat. For the 1,300 workers at Jefferson North, including Housel, that's caused for optimism. I tell you today is a great day for us. It's been about 14 weeks now since we last run production of our plant. And it's great seeing everybody. We got a great opportunity as a company, as a plant to really move forward. I'm just looking forward to it. I'm excited. I'm really excited. But right now we're grateful to walk back in the gates to build more Jeeps. We're confident that we're going to pull through this. I can't do nothing, keep hoping alive. That's all I can do. Just keep hoping alive and pray. Well, my confidence is really good at this point. It's a great opportunity for us. We've given a new lease on life and we've got to take advantage of that. And I think we're going to. And I think everybody sees that and they're excited about being here. And my confidence level is extremely high. Workers also reported back Monday at the Toledo North Assembly Plant, which builds the Jeep Liberty and Dodge Nitro and Belvedere Assembly, home of the Dodge Caliber and Jeep Patriot Encompass. Both plants have been down since mid-spring. With the introduction of Fiat's world-class manufacturing system and that improving quality and productivity, there's new confidence in Chrysler's future. This is our second lease on life. We've got no other opportunity but now. And with WCM, we're a world-class manufacturing, we've got nothing to go about to go out. For Chrysler Communications, I'm Ed Garstin reporting.