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SB NONE.jpgCustomers look over the Saturn Sky roadster at Saturn of Flint in this Flint Journal file photo from October 2005.



FLINT TWP -- Saturn of Flint will close its doors for good on Thanksgiving Day, owner Pete Serra said today.
The closing is not unexpected after a deal for General Motors to sell Saturn to a group led by Roger Penske collapsed late last month.
Joe Serra, Pete Serra's brother and president of Grand Blanc's Serra Automotive, had been working with Penske on that Saturn deal.
"To me, the most painful thing is (the future for) the people who are working for me," Pete Serra said. "I feel good about the fact that we're helping people get into some good (organizations)."
Some of those 30 Flint Township-based employees will move to Serra's second Saturn dealership, which will remain open as a used car dealership and service center for vehicles in Kochville Township, he said. The dealer said he is also networking to help find positions for some employees with other auto dealers.
Serra said his dealership near Saginaw is in a better position to survive because it located on a busier commercial strip than his storefront here in Dutcher Street, near Lennon Road.
Serra said the dealership has new vehicles in stock but will sell them off and close operations by the time he closes for good at the end of the day on Nov. 25.
"We need to relieve ourselves of all the product. We're not looking to make money, just cut our losses," he said.
Bloomfield Hills-based Penske Automotive Group Inc. has said its deal to buy Saturn from GM fell apart after an agreement with another manufacturer to produce Saturns in the future was rejected by that company's board of directors.
GM announced plans to wind down Saturn immediately after the Penske deal failed.




 


  • Warren mayor says General Motors jobs in Grand Blanc Township should be consolidated in his city

    GRAND BLANC TWP — No offense, Genesee County, but the outspoken mayor of Warren says closing General Motors’ Service and Parts Operations World Headquarters is just a no-brainer. “I’m sympathetic to (the) Flint (area), but we want to make sure General Motors is healthy and competitive. The bottom-line is efficiency,” said Mayor James R. Fouts. “They’ve got to consolidate. I've...


    GRAND BLANC TWP — No offense, Genesee County, but the outspoken mayor of Warren says closing General Motors’ Service and Parts Operations World Headquarters is just a no-brainer.

    “I’m sympathetic to (the) Flint (area), but we want to make sure General Motors is healthy and competitive. The bottom-line is efficiency,” said Mayor James R. Fouts. “They’ve got to consolidate. I've been pushing that and ... we've got everything GM could possibly want.”

    “The overall big picture is to protect the jobs and keep the pensions of all the GM retirees in Michigan safe.”

    Warren, Detroit and Grand Blanc Township are the focus of a GM review of non-manufacturing operations in southeast Michigan. The company is under pressure from the federal government to makes itself more efficient, and it is maintaining far more office space than it needs with its shrinking workforce.

    The Flint Journal reported last week that  employees here have been told there is a very strong likelihood the township SPO facility will close at some point next year and employees  transferred to the Warren Tech Center.

    Although GM has neither confirmed nor denied the story, spokesman Don Flores has acknowledged SPO headquarters may relocate as a cost-saving measure.

    Fouts has been criticized for suggesting that white collar jobs at Detroit’s Renaissance Center should also be consolidated in Warren, which he said has the capacity for up to 25,000 employees and now has about 10,000 on site.

    “Ultimately, everything but the administration offices will be at the Tech Center,” he said Friday. “To be politically correct, they will probably keep the chairman of the board (in Detroit) but everything else will be at the Tech Center.”

    Township Supervisor Micki Hoffman said she will fight for the 800 jobs at SPO but is also focusing on potential new uses for the 12-year-old building if GM leaves.

    "I'd be disappointed (if GM closes the headquarters)," Hoffman said. "(But) if that's the direction they are going, I will work my best to market that building."

    Tim Herman, chief executive officer of the Genesee Regional Chamber of Commerce, said his group will work with the township and GM "to maximize use of this facility" and will "continue to dialogue with GM on this and other issues."


  • Time story: Role in Chevrolet Volt brings new hope to Flint

    Flint's connection to General Motors' Chevrolet Volt is the taking-off point for a new story posted today on the Web site of Time magazine. The story uses this week's press conference at Flint Engine South, where GM and UAW officials trumpeted Flint ties to the electric Volt and the future of the new GM. In addition to this area's connection...

    Flint's connection to General Motors' Chevrolet Volt is the taking-off point for