Adidas building a factory in Detroit?
Adidas, the German sports company seeking to regain its dominance in the U.S., is looking at opening an automated factory in Detroit by 2017.
"We can bring manufacturing back to Detroit, and that's where we want to be in 2017," said Eric Liedtke, Adidas executive board member for global brands, said in a statement provided by the company.
His remarks were initially made at an event in New York to unveil the company's Ultra Boost shoes made from plastics and netting dumped in oceans and part of a larger announcement about the company's new business strategy to quicken its manufacturing process — and move some footwear production to the U.S.
http://www.freep.com/story/money/business/michigan/2015/07/02/adidas-detroit-factory/29613851/
They have a new business strategy and hired an American to head their North American division. I wonder if this will have any effect on Hackett's decision to re-up with Adidas.
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Longer answer is also....
I was just about to ask if Puma has thrown their hat in the ring yet. This was perfect.
Zenith have opened a factory to make football helmets in Detroit. I think there's a good chance this could happen.
Xenith’s new Detroit facility will produce more than 1,000 helmets per day at peak production and will employ 60 to 70 full-time workers to assemble, recondition and paint its innovative protective equipment. The Detroit operation began in early 2015 and the majority of the workers assembling the helmets are Detroiters employed by Lear Corporation.
It's a nice story, but 60-70 full time jobs is less than a drop in the bucket for a city that used to be millions of people strong. I live in another rust belt city and people get real excited about a plant coming in that offers a few hundred jobs because they think it means the city is back. People just don't want to admit that some of these cities might be past their glory days permanently
It's not only the rust belt cities. America's local politicians are worse at managing funds than the national politicians. Cities like Chicago and Philly could be next due to horrible fiscal management.
Generation Y is in for a lovely austeric future thanks to Generation X and the Baby Boomers' horrible spending/taxing policies in the last 20ish years.
I'd put more of it on the baby boomers.
There's like 11 of us, and we generally don't give a fuck about politics. We just want to be left alone.
Blame the boomers.
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It goes much further back than people are going. It goes back at least to the early 20th C with the progressive movement. Grover Cleveland was perhaps the last real presidential economic pragmatist before the progressive movement gained steam. Once it is accepted that the governement should be paternal, spoiled children will demand ever more to the point the paternal government breaks itself trying to satiate those demands.
... you have to start somewhere.
No one is going to come in to any city and build a plant that will employ 1 million people. Every little bit helps.
With lower energy costs and more competitive labor costs now, more and more businesses will return production facilities to the U.S.
and that idiotic flag avatar back to Fox News. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about in regards to Detroit. Or Canada for that matter.
I never really saw the Gadsden flag much prior to 1/20/2009. I wonder what happened that day? I imagine you're the one that needs a history lesson.
Also, stick your "prayer" up your (_!_)
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and Butthurt has two t's.
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I'm not a mongrel that doesn't want jobs in Detroit. Thank you for your concerns though..
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who cares if they make ugly things? the city is dying and anything to help it is a good thing. heck, i might buy something they make if it comes from detroit.
There seems to be a cool hipster thing going on down there, but it's small in comparison to the huge amounts of Detroit that are effectively wasteland right now
Yeah, there are still many neighborhoods in a bad way, but even this is beginning to improve some. The commitment to demolish abandoned properties is a serious one, and that has begun to help, the city is finally getting on the case of landlords that don't give a shit, things like illegal dumping are aggressively pursued now. It's a lot of little things, but things badly needed and things which have been allowed to sit for too long. The streetlights are being fixed block by block and residents are even embracing that for the safety aspect. It is a long road, but at least it is being traveled.
Here are some more examples:
Two new Meijer stores have opened with another one in the works. (Detroit didn't have a big-box grocery store for years)
Plan to rebuild Brush Park with 337 housing units.
Erskine Lofts development (200 apartments).
185 new apartments in Lafayette Park.
Little Caesers are building a new HQ next to the Fox.
Massive residential development (294 units complete by 2016) near the riverfront.
Hotel and residential project on the Joe Louis Arena site, once the team moves into the new arena.
The new arena will have mixed-use buildings (including residential) surroung it. The plan is to have a 45-block entertainment district which will help connect midtown to downtown.
M-Rail is already helping bring development along Woodward.
DPS deficit report today - increased to something like $250 million for just this year? population leaving by the truckloads, entire neighborhoods where i used to work look like iraq with active shelling only recently ceasing, schools in a death spiral of financial ruin, dropping enrollment and mismanagement, police department hopelessly outmanned and quite corrupt on its own. i wish detroit well, i was born there a long time ago, but by most objective metrics (not all) the city is in fact dying and has been for decades.
and i reiterate: i would love detroit to come back and come back strong. just don't lose sight of reality about where it is right now.
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Because he doesn't live there and there are a few nice things downtown that weren't there 5 years ago.
The worst is over and now the city is in recovery mode. There are alot of positive things happening in Detroit now, especially with the money that Gilbert is investing with his Bed Rock company. There is going to be alot of opportunities for entrepreneurs in the future, but it is a long term project that is going to take at least 20-30 years.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zx6ICdFk8OeY.kUycz683ySJg&usp=sharing
Detroit has seen a lot of development lately especially in downtown and midtown. The neighborhoods need a lot of work, but you have to start somewhere.
If it's a good business decision for them, hooray. Good for them.
Should make no difference in our decision.