Lago Alberto Assembly

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The Lago Alberto Assembly was a Chrysler Corporation automobile factory in the Nuevo Polanco district of Miguel Hidalgo borough, in northwestern Mexico City, Mexico. It was built during the 1930s and built Dodge trucks and the Plymouth Savoy. [1]

The factory was idled in 2002, with production shifted to the Saltillo Truck Assembly.

It was demolished, and is the present day site of the Parques Polanco project, a mixed-use development.

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  1. "Chrysler factories, offices, and testing grounds, 1925-2017". Allpar.com. Allpar.com. Retrieved 3 September 2021.

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