In recent years, Chrysler LLC has invested more than $10 billion in the communities where we have our roots. We have provided billions of dollars more to construct or refurbish production facilities on these sites, or in some cases, supported local developers to ensure industrious use of the sites, including more than $165 million to recondition brownfield sites.
Over the past 15 years, nearly 40 sites have undergone environmental and economic transformation.
Additionally, in a unique partnership with Michigan State University, Chrysler LLC has turned a former dump site in Michigan into a research lab for the development of biofuels.
A Michigan State instructor is growing sunflowers, canola, switchgrass, corn and soybeans on the brownfield site to research and develop better renewable fuels and to study whether viable fuel crops can be grown on former industrial sites all over the country.
