Thanks for the update, its amazing just how quick something this big can be destroyed

It'll be a shock next time I'm down to see it in person...I sure miss the South Plant. Now soon there will be nothing

We went by there on April 9th and I took some pics.

What's kinda sad id, the area where they started tearing it down was the newest part.
They built the new "metal shop dept" in about 2001 at a cost of around $400,000,000 IIRC.

Soon all that will be left will be a large concrete slab, that and the steel piers set deep in the ground with 12 yard of concrete around each one.

They're cleaning up what's easy to remove and sell off as scrap and leaving the hard part for someone else to deal with.

The week day rent a cop that is guarding the end of Maraz Ln, Is a work in progress. He was trying to say that the road Private property. I told him if it was then it would be blocked off or fenced, like everything else. Need less to say my charm and good looks got me out smoothed out the situation. Well don't let my run in stop YOU from seeing MCM progress. They are half way through the plant. And they have some new signage that can see from space. My guess is that they are going to use google earth to help advertise the empty plot of land.

This is the final dis-assembly of an assembly plant.

Back shot.

Close up

Video link

http://wn.com/MCM_begins_Chrysler_Fenton_Assembly_Plant_Demolition

More than half way gone. I give then two more months till its just a sheet of concrete.

Keep them coming. This is a historical moment that your documenting.

Thanks for the pics


Sure is a shame to see it all going away though..

interesting to see, and sad. thanks for sharing. i wonder if the water tower will remain, or if it will come down too?

Any way we can get a moparts to SAVE this North plant and the other South plant pages? I hate to have them disappear when the moparts server is upgrated.

This was just on the ground when I got out to take a different angle of the plant. What else did Chrysler leave behind?

I started a post on the tower if you havent seen it here it is.

https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...amp;Search=true

That's an "as built" shop drawing for the paint room done by Midwest Conveyor (subcontractor), apparently the addition was done in 1986? Left behind because it's worthless now? As builts are rarely referenced unless an addition is being planned anyway, otherwise they're just taking up space as "too important to throw away" documents.

Robert

They just did the same thing to Newark assembly in Newark,Delaware where the Durango was last built.

Are there any pictures from the Newark plant demolishing?

If you have some post a few or a link to them.

I found this one on you tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWjngIm-qGU&feature=related

On the print I like how the exterior of the box was painted Chrysler blue.

It wont be long now.

This is from the wrong side of the tracks.