Mahoning Valley - The efforts to bring something sustainable into the General Motors Lordstown plant began with an initiative called the Drive It Home campaign in November 2018.

A collection of business and community leaders had banded together to try to stop GM from pulling out of the factory.

"That was the original plan. And then about like a week later, General Motors put a whole bunch of plants across the country into what they called unallocated status," Guy Coviello, President of the Youngstown-Warren Regional Chamber, said.

On Nov. 26, 2018, GM announced it would stop producing new products at the plant.

In response to the news, the Drive It Home campaign shifted its focus to attract new investment for the 6.2 million square-foot plant.

After the GM plant shut down in 2019, th

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