Back in the late 1940s, this Automaker decided to expand its engine production facilities. The placement of the plant within the village of Brook Park, and on the 204 acre site was an ideal place as it was close to the main line of the railroad and the nearby city of Cleveland was a port city on the Great Lakes making it ideal to import raw materials and to send out automobiles.
Back in 1951, the automaker built the Cleveland Engine plant, which was the first engine plant in Ohio and opened in 1952 to produce cast iron engine blocks. During the 1960s the plant employed over 15,000 workers with over 10,000 working in the casting plant's foundry. With our changing times the foundry closed in late October 2010, leading to the loss of a number of jobs as this plant was no longer needed since most of their engine blocks are now made of aluminum. However, after a $350 million investment by the automaker in 2009, the plant rebounded and currently employs 800 people building a new engine.
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