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Ford Chicago Manufacturing Campus
The Ford Motor Company entered into an innovative public/private
partnership with the City of Chicago and CenterPoint Properties to
develop the Ford Manufacturing Campus, its first North American facility
based on the ‘just-in-time’ manufacturing model. In total, more than $250
million has been invested into the campus and related infrastructure
improvements, bringing adaptive re-use to a former steel mill site that
sat abandoned for 40 years.
Nine of Ford’s tier-one suppliers are located at the 1.6 million-squarefoot
campus, which sits just one-half mile from Ford’s existing Torrence
Avenue Assembly Plant in southeast Chicago. By centralizing its parts
suppliers near a final assembly line, the automaker’s bottom line benefits
from increased warehousing and distribution efficiencies. In fact, turnaround
time for new vehicles has been decreased to days instead of
weeks.
The campus, fully operational since 2004, created up to 1,600 new,
high-quality manufacturing jobs. In addition, the new campus retained
2,200 existing jobs from Ford’s prior facility - Torrence Avenue Assembly
Plant - and created approximately 300 additional jobs. A 2004 Phoenix
Award winner, the project has been deemed a success at both the
regional and national level.
Project Highlights
- Total Investment: $250 million
- Site Size: 155 acres
- Total Building Space: 1.6 million square feet
- Customer Use: light manufacturing, distribution
- Customers: Plastech Engineered Products, TDS Automotive U.S., Ford Motor
Company, Visteon Corporation, Summit Polymers, S-Y Systems
Technologies, America LLC, Lear Operations Corporation, Brose Chicago,
ZF Lemforder Corporation, Tower Automotive Products Company
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