LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) — Michigan’s biggest industrial project in decades is moving forward without a signed tenant—while homes, schools, and trust in government disappear in its path.

The state’s $260 million commitment.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is promoting a 1,180-acre “megasite” outside Flint as a future home for semiconductor manufacturing. Even though the state has committed up to $260 million in taxpayer funding for land and site preparation, no company has committed to the project yet.

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“They’re going to rip down all these houses for a company that we don’t know who it is,” Steven Philips, who has lived across from the site for 30 years, told Bridge Michigan. “We had no say in it. At all.” 

The state has spent at least $140 million buying land through the Flint & Genesee Economic Alliance, and currently about 165 homes are slated for demolition..

Also, Whitmer has called on state and federal leaders to help Michigan “land and start building a chip plant” by next year. Company names have not been disclosed, but semiconductor company Sandisk has registered as a lobbyist.

“Nobody knows what’s going to happen.”

Local officials, including Republican Supervisor Jennifer Stainton, say the state’s secrecy has fueled distrust.

“Nobody knows what’s going to happen,” Stainton said. “It’s really no way to live.”

In addition, Stainton has raised concerns about property values, water contamination, and the future of Morrish Elementary School, which sits inside the megasite boundary. Swartz Creek Schools may vote June 25 on a pending offer to sell the property,

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“As a responsibility to your community, you need to let them know something,” Stainton said. 

Lansing lawmaker weighs in.

Republicans in Lansing say they are unlikely to approve more incentives for the site.

“If I have it my way, we won’t do it,” Rep. Steve Carra (R-Three Rivers), who chairs the House Subcommittee on Corporate Subsidies, said. “We’re done picking winners and losers.”

Don Ludwig agrees. He organized opposition efforts, and said the rollout alienated many.

“If they had come to the community and said, ‘Hey, we’re offering you two times the value of your home,’ I think I could have accepted it because I am for job growth,” Ludwig said. “But how it all went about was the wrong way.”