Comments on: Saab Cars North America Eyes New HQ In Royal Oak, MI

By: fred diesel

fred diesel — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:59:34 +0000

I dunno….SCNA is going to go back to being an importer. Their parts are in Allentown PA. Main ports are Newark and Baltimore. Any of those places makes more sense than MI.

By: TheAutoBid.com » Blog Archive » Saab pondering Detroit suburb for new U.S. headquarters?

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:58:29 +0000

[...] Filed under: Saab Having concluded the relationship with its former sugar daddy, GM, Saab is scouting locations for its new corporate headquarters to make a fresh start. According to one report, that location could be Royal Oak, Michigan, about fifteen miles from Detroit. Saab apparently has $2.2 million to invest in a new HQ over the next five years, where it plans to house “mostly sales and marketing functions.” The building in question is 13,000 square feet and boasts the few amenities necessary to Saab’s situation: offices for 50 people and a large garage. A Saab spokeswoman said Royal Oak is “trendy” and fits “our customer demographics.” Finalizing the deal looks to rest on Royal Oak providing tax abatement, which hasn’t been decided yet. Even if the city does give Saab some help moving in, the longer-term story is Saab’s possible return to New England: the company began in Connecticut when it first came to U.S. shores. And with other upmarket European brands having decided that the Midwest simply didn’t cut it, it wouldn’t be a surprise. [Source: Saab History]Saab pondering Detroit suburb for new U.S. headquarters? originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments [...]

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Business-on.info | Business info — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:35:44 +0000

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By: Bill Wolf

Bill Wolf — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:20:12 +0000

The design kind of looks like one of those new Maximum Security Federal Penitentiaries.

Any connection?

By: Mike Parahus

Mike Parahus — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:19:54 +0000

While I agree there is a lot of common sense to wanting to be close to GM during the start up and changeover……boy, one would sure think they would want to get the hell out of Dodge and distance themselves from what brought the company to it’s knees in the first place!
I’d say to get back to it’s roots and make a statement they are a new company….on their own…..get out of town. Move somewhere else and make a statement by doing so in saying….the GM era is over…..Saab is on its own again, plus from a hiring standpoint I’d think they would want to get talent from the European sector…..not domestic as that is what led to their errosion in market share in the first place.

Start anew will ya!!!!!

By: Tom Nelson

Tom Nelson — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:42:03 +0000

This announcement is interesting to me as I lived in Royal Oak, MI back in the early 1960′s when I worked at the GM Tech Center. Has the city changed it’s name to Royal Oaks? Maybe the oak(s) have multiplied in 50 years?

Also I see a confusion factor developing if the new company uses Saab Cars North America (SCNA) for it’s HQ name in Royal Oak. We have used SCNA as the acronym for Saab Club of North America for many years.

But it does make sense for the new SAAB headquarters to have it’s location close to GM in the transition to independence.