Pre-bid tour at GM’s powertrain plant…

General Motors’ Massena plant could fall.

A number of contractors toured the General Motors Powertrain plant in Massena last Wednesday and were asked to prepare estimates for the demolition of the 50-year-old facility, according to several sources.

According to an internal demolition proposal, the entire 83,612 square metre (900,000-square-foot) factory would be razed, an outbuilding torn down and an on-site water tower dismantled.

Officials from Motors Liquidation Corp., which assumed ownership of the facility following GM’s June bankruptcy filing, would neither confirm nor deny that the meeting took place or that the liquidation group has made the decision to raze the plant.

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