{"id":1004171665,"date":"2017-04-06T04:55:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T12:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004171665"},"modified":"2022-12-09T02:53:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T10:53:30","slug":"a123-systems-to-build-40m-hq-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/a123-systems-to-build-40m-hq-in-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"A123 Systems to Build $40M HQ in Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By IvyLee Rosario<\/p>\n<p>A123 Systems, a\u00a0developer and manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries and systems, is building a new $40 million headquarters in Novi, Mich.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004171682\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/04\/Livonia-Mich.-facility.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004171682\" data-attachment-id=\"1004171682\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/a123-systems-to-build-40m-hq-in-michigan\/livonia-mich-facility\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/04\/Livonia-Mich.-facility.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A123 Systems&#8217; Livonia, Mich. facility\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;A123 Systems&#8217; Livonia, Mich. facility&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/04\/Livonia-Mich.-facility.jpg?w=800\" class=\"wp-image-1004171682 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/04\/Livonia-Mich.-facility.jpg\" alt=\"A123 Systems' Livonia, Mich. facility\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/04\/Livonia-Mich.-facility.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/04\/Livonia-Mich.-facility.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/04\/Livonia-Mich.-facility.jpg?resize=768,576 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004171682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A123 Systems&#8217; Livonia, Mich. facility<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Located near the Fountain Walk complex off I-96, the 32-acre site will feature an engineering center with all corporate functions, a laboratory space and a manufacturing plant. The 150,000-square-foot campus will replace the company&#8217;s leased spaces in Livonia and Romulus, serving as a workplace for more than 400 employees upon completion.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the new facility, the company will also be consolidating its U.S. manufacturing operations into a smaller site on the campus.\u00a0Construction is set to begin in the third quarter of 2017 and be complete by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are making a commitment to a continued significant presence in Michigan, in proximity to the skilled and experienced talent here,\u201d<\/em> said Jason Forcier, CEO of A123 Systems, in prepared remarks. <em>\u201cThis new complex meets future needs by becoming our epicenter of engineering. It will allow us to grow our engineering workforce and bring testing inside, that has previously been done outside the company.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of A123 Systems<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 150,000-square-foot campus will replace the company&#8217;s leased spaces in Livonia and Romulus, serving as a workplace for more than 400 employees upon completion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":746,"featured_media":1004171682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,21782,21748,13,21742],"tags":[34827],"class_list":["post-1004171665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-detroit","category-development","category-industrial","category-midwest","category-latest","tag-a123-systems"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - 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