Toyota announced on February 27, 2007, that it would build its fourteenth North American plant in Blue Springs, Mississippi.

The plan was to employ about 2,000 people to build the Highlander SUV beginning in 2010 at an annual capacity of 150,000 vehicles per year.

[4] Construction of the plant was put on hold on December 15, 2008, due to the Great Recession in the United States.

[5] The plant built nearly 1.2 million 11th generation Corollas, with the last rolling off the production line on February 22, 2019.

The plant spent a few weeks preparing to produce the all-new 12th-generation Corolla, which is built on the new Toyota New Global Architecture platform.