US carmaker General Motors (GM) is planning to invest $120m to build a 400,000 sq ft paint shop at its Fairfax assembly plant in Kansas City, US.
GM will seek Unified Government Board of Commissioners to grant the investment in industrial revenue bonds to finance the new paint shop at the 3 million sq ft plant in Kansas City, where Buick LaCrosse and Chevrolet Malibu are currently assembled.
The Unified Government board will formally consider the GM's industrial revenue bonds request in September 2012.
In 2011, the Kansas City plant had produced 214,000 Malibus and 65,000 Lacrosses.
Kansas City Economic Development deputy county administrator Doug Bach said the planned investment by GM should mean that future generations of new car models will be produced at Fairfax.
"If the expansion project moves forward on schedule, it would be completed in 2014," Bach said.
