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MegadealsSubsidy Tracker Individual Entry
Company: Ford Motor
Parent Company:
Ford Motor
Subsidy Source: multiple
Location: Michigan
City: Wayne
Project Description: automobile assembly plant
Year: 2009
Major Industry of Parent: motor vehicles
Specific Industry of Parent: motor vehicles
Subsidy Value: $174,700,000
Subsidy Value in 2023 Dollars: $249,420,750
Program Name: multiple
Awarding Agency: multiple
Type of Subsidy:
MEGADEAL

Number of Jobs or Training Slots: 4,700
Capital Investment: $550,000,000
Source of Data: The subsidy values and the (new) jobs and investment projections came from a May 6, 2009 press release issued by the office of then-Gov. Jennifer Granholm; online at
(click here)
Notes: The package--which was offered in connection with the company's plan to convert an assembly plant that had been making large-body vehicles into one for smaller and more fuel-efficient ones (including Ford's first battery vehicle)--included: a MEGA tax credit worth $123 million; a $30 million brownfield tax credit; a local property tax abatement worth $15.3 million; and $6.4 million in state and local tax capture. Deal documents have been posted by the Mackinac Center at
(click here) Overlaps with main Subsidy Tracker data: a $176.5 million MEGA entry for 2009; two brownfield tax credit entries: $30 million for 2009 and $10 million for 2010; and a $5.6 million brownfield TIF entry for 2009.
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