[2] Modeled after the River Rouge Plant, the facility eventually included a power house, water treatment plant, barber shop, safety-shoe store, restaurant, fitness center and TV studio.
[1] Ford invested $375 million at the plant in 2002[4] to upgrade it for production of the redesigned eleventh generation 2004 F-150.
[9] In 1942, Ford sold the plant to the federal government for $2 million and it became the Naval Landing Force Equipment Depot.
The development company renamed the facility the Virginia Renaissance Center [14] and planned to demolish all structures on the site except the 662,000-square-foot main assembly building, making way for a mixed-use industrial project.
The Shaubach parcels were in turn sold to Bay Disposal, a trash collection and recycling company.