Mundy Township / Swartz Creek Megasite

Named the “Advanced Manufacturing District” (AMD) by its local development partner, the Flint and Genesee Economic Alliance (FGEA), the AMD has so far received $259M in direct taxpayer funding through the MEDC’s Michigan Strategic Fund board. 

Recent developments have unearthed reports that FGEA, MEDC, and state officials had assembled a package of over $6B in taxpayer funding for potential developer Sandisk, which has since pulled out of the deal.

The over 1,300 acres of land slated for development include hundreds of homes and businesses, as well as wetlands and wildlife habitat refuges. 

Within a half mile radius of the proposed site, there are: 

- nine major subdivisions (two of which exist within the property site), 

- four manufactured home communities, 

- one elementary school,  

- two childcare centers, 

- a regenerative beef farm,

- dozens of local businesses.

In an effort to sell a “build-ready” site, FGEA has been acquiring properties within the site, and has already begun bulldozing homes and businesses, and is actively attempting to purchase the local elementary school for the purposes of demolition.

Neighbors in the area have complained about noise, dust, the displacement of wildlife, and destruction of property at the hands of FGEA contractors.

In spring of 2025, FGEA was slapped by state environmental regulator EGLE for destruction of wetlands without a permit.