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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowConnersville officials are pitching the closed Visteon plant as the headquarters and production facility for a company that plans to build police cars.
Connersville Mayor Leonard Urban is leading a delegation today to the Atlanta headquarters of Carbon Motors Corp. to urge the company to move to the vacant 1.6 million-square-foot factory.
Company officials say the Indiana city about 70 miles east of Indianapolis is one of five finalists for the plant. The other sites are in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and South Carolina. A decision on a site could come this summer.
Michigan-based Visteon stopped production in 2007 at the factory, which made vehicle heating and cooling systems. The factory once employed more than 3,000 people, but had only about 300 workers when it closed.
Carbon Motors is the developer of the Carbon E7, a police car that runs on clean diesel and biodiesel technology.
The company said it would invest more than $350 million into the development of the vehicle, which is slated for production in 2012. Roughly 10,000 direct and indirect jobs could be created, with an economic impact of more than $3 billion, within a 10-year period, Carbon Motors said.
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