Twin Cities Assembly Plant

The Twin Cities Assembly Plant was a Ford Motor Company manufacturing facility in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, that operated from 1925 to 2011.

[1] By 1925, Ford had relocated its local operations to the bluffs above the Mississippi River in the Highland Park neighborhood of Saint Paul.

All of the facility's buildings were demolished and the site underwent extensive environmental remediation in the late 2010s, paid for by Ford.

[3] They became functionally obsolete with the development of the moveable assembly line[3] The Ford Center, at 420 Fifth St. in Minneapolis, was the tallest automobile factory at the time of its opening in 1912.

[4] The promise of cheap hydropower was the chief reason why Henry Ford agreed to build a plant in Saint Paul.

Some remains of the upstream Meeker Island Lock and Dam still poke out of the water when the river is low.

Officially known as the Intercity Bridge, it connects 46th Street on the Minneapolis side of the river to the Ford Parkway in Saint Paul.