Business is bleak near shuttered GM factory

By Tom Lambert | Lansing State Journal

Up until about three weeks ago, Gus Caliacatsos couldn't wait to get to work for another 18-hour day, serving customers at his Michigan Avenue bar.

But on May 6, his world came crashing down. That's when his business, Gus's Bar, lost 95 percent of its customer base when General Motors Corp. shut down its Lansing Car Assembly plant on Verlinden Avenue.

"Now when I come in here, I get depressed," said Caliacatsos, who has been across from the plant since 1982. "I don't know how I am going to pay the bills. I am going to try to make it work, but I am only going to give it a couple of months."



Another one bites the dust. Is our industry heading south and east......

What is next....

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