when Chrysler became a client, and, by
2011, the return to prominencewarranted a
$1million internal investment to transform
the company’s existing headquarters
location into another molding facility – its
sixth.
“There are more people alive on the face of
the earth today than have ever died from
beginning of time, and that’s a lot of cars,” he
said. “So someone’s going to be buying cars.
I decided it was in the best interest of my
own people, first of all, that I came out of
retirement – not because of greed, not
because of need, but because there were
people in Grand Rapids that had to be
helped.
“At one time, in Grand Rapids, we were a
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