Michigan House committee approves $120M more for Ford Marshall site - By
James David Dickson"The Michigan House Appropriations Committee approved Tuesday a $120.3 million
legislative transfer toward preparations for Ford Motor Company’s upcoming plant in Marshall, BlueOval Battery Park.
A
local group, the Marshall Area Economic Development
Alliance, will be granted the funds if the Senate Appropriations Committee grants its approval.
The
request for Legislative Transfer 2023-4 explains how the funds would be used:
This state investment would support land acquisition, site preparation, water and wastewater upgrades, and other necessary public infrastructure improvements at the strategic Marshall mega-site, where the Ford Motor Company’s new electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturing facility, BlueOval Battery Park, is proposed to be located.
As The Detroit News reports, “
Ford's total incentives for the $3.5 billion project amount to about
$1.6 billion in state and local taxpayer aid once local and state tax incentives are taken into consideration.”
...Last year, Michigan lawmakers approved
- $100 million for Ford to hire 3,030 factory workers.
- Two months later, Ford laid off 3,000 white-collar and contract workers...