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Published: December 20, 2007
Buyer ready to transform old plant
Closed Dayton Tire site looks attractive to company
By Steve Lackmeyer
A Kansas City company that specializes in retrofitting old factories is set to close today on its purchase of the former Dayton Tire plant, and is preparing to spend millions to turn it into an industrial park.

The plant, built in 1969, closed one year ago due to declining sales of Bridgestone/Firestone tires and left 1,700 workers unemployed. Big Industrial LLC specializes in buying closed plants and convertin...

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