While cruising around the city, we headed to the location of several of the manufacturing sites for GM. Our “field trip” was depressing in some sense. As we came down MLK, what used to be Logan street, we couldn’t believe our eyes. Descending upon the location of the former Lansing Assembly Plant, the plant was no longer there! It was as if it never existed.

Since I had heard they were tearing down some of the plants on West Saginaw Ave, we decided to head over there. This was a pretty wild sight— as for purpose of “sound pollution” and “debris,” the demolition was taking the form of leaving the street-facing facade of the Lansing Metal Center standing, while gutting the interior of the site.

It felt a little wrong and deceptive in my mind that they would hide the view of tearing down this piece of Michigan history, so we decided to find an alternate view. We found a great park adjacent to the site and took a number of photos.

Also in proximity to this location was the vacant Lansing Craft Centre, which served as a low-production manufacturing plant for a number of projects since the 80’s, most recently the Chevy SSR.

All in all it was a successful adventure as we were able to capture, on film, this last phase in the lifespan of these buildings that have produced so many vehicles that are driving on the roads of our country today.

It’s great to be working with such a strong team of professionals, all masters in their primary trades and beyond.

Founding partner, Jeff Tunnell, has formally announced the start up over as his blog, Make It Big In Games.  Tim Aste has also written up a brief account of what went into getting the site launched.

The official Push Button Labs website, as well as this site, are built on top of the OnePress Community theme built for WordPress.  We are currently in the early stages of getting it out the door, so more to come on that later.

Anyways, lots of exciting things around the corner for our company, so you’ll have to stay tuned to hear more about our interests in Open Source, Flash, and WordPress.

Make great products with people that we want to work with, and have fun doing it!

To learn more about the Push Button Labs team, you can read the company’s biographies here.