General Constructors are named by Toyota to conduct ''One Toyota'' Construction projects in Texas, Michigan and Kentucky

Toyota declared that it has selected general contractors to conduct the construction, as a part of  the Company’s plan to build a new North American headquarters in North Texas and extend operations in Michigan and Georgetown, Kentucky.

Concerning Texas, Toyota has decided to pick Dallas-based Austin Commercial, a builder working in Texas, California, Georgia and Arizona, as the general contractor in charge of developing its new North America headquarters campus in the Legacy West development in Plano. Austin Commercial has the knowledge in all types of commercial construction. Many projects speak for themselves, including corporate headquarters and sports and health care facilities, schools and universities, data centers and other advanced technology projects like semiconductor plants.

For the projects in Georgetown, Ky., and York Township,Michigan, Toyota selected Walbridge and its shared venture minority-business enterprise (MBE) partner Devon Industrial Group as general contractors. Walbridge and Devon are both based in Detroit.

“We are pleased to be moving ahead quickly with these three projects as we work to bring our major North American business affiliates and leaders together for the first time,” said Osamu “Simon” Nagata, president and CEO of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. “I am confident that we have selected companies with outstanding track records, a strong focus on safety and real commitment to supplier diversity.”

To that mark, Devon will have supremacy in management of the York Township project, representing the first time a minority and/or women-owned business (MWBE) leads a major construction project for Toyota. Toyota's goal is to assure partnership with MWBE’s and to accomplish at least 20 percent total diversity spend with MWBE entities at all three locations.

”Toyota has been a leader in providing opportunities to minority businesses so they can grow and develop,” said David Burnley, Sr., CEO of Devon. “We, in turn, look to mentor and aid a diverse base of suppliers so they, too, can gain experience in the auto industry and pass that along to other small businesses.”

New headquarters will be set up in Plano for its North American operations as part of a series of moves designed to better serve customers and position the company for sustainable, long-term growth. 

Construction of all three facilities will begin in spring 2015. These moves will influence approximately 4,000 employees. The three separate North American headquarters for manufacturing, sales and marketing and corporate operations will relocate to a single, state-of-the-art campus in Plano. 

This action involves extending the Toyota Technical Center facilities in Southeast Michigan to accommodate increased investment in its engineering and product development capacity, and also opening a production engineering facility on the site of Toyota’s largest U.S. manufacturing plant in Georgetown, Ky. It is expected to be completed by 2017.