To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (124846 ) 5/22/2008 9:16:21 PM From: Jim McMannis Respond to of 306849 Facility Closures and Layoffs (May 11-17) A Weekly Listing of Future Corporate Downsizingscostar.com This article is excerpted from Watch List, a weekly column of market conditions, company expansions and contractions and real estate investment opportunities. Sun Microsystems has increased the number of layoffs it is planning for this year. In February, CoStar reported that Sun Microsystems has been laying off employees across the country, sometimes as few as one or two employees per location. Through the end of 2007, Sun Microsystems had laid off 657 employees and said it was planning another 103 layoffs this year. Earlier this month, the company said it now plans to lay off 1,500 to 2,500 workers. Ford Motor Co. is offering buyouts to 800 workers at its assembly plant in Chicago, IL, and 500 at its Louisville, KY, and an unidentified number of workers at its Cleveland, OH, plant. All three plants will move from two shifts to one this summer. The restarting of an idled second engine plant in Cleveland will be delayed until the fourth quarter. The Chicago factory makes the Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable sedans and Taurus X crossover vehicle. The Louisville assembly plant makes the Ford Explorer and Mercury Mountaineer sport utility vehicles. The Cleveland plant makes engines. Albany International Corp. is planning more reductions in manufacturing capacity. It intends to discontinue operations at its forming fabric manufacturing facility at 4521 Troy Highway in Montgomery, AL. The plans are in response to the continuing consolidation within the paper industry in the U.S. The following future closings and permanent mass layoffs were reported in Florida. First Data is laying off 96 employees at 1800 W. Internat'l Spdway Blvd. in Daytona Beach by June 27. First Student is laying off 277 employees at 6544 Firehouse Road in Milton on June 30. Hapag-Lloyd is laying off 50 employees at 401 E. Jackson St. in Tampa on June 30. Health Care District Of Palm Beach is laying off 66 employees at 3111 S. Dixie Highway, Suite 138, in West Palm Beach by Sept. 30. Lear Corp. is laying off 108 employees at 5100 W. Waters Ave. in Tampa on June 13. National Gypsum Co. is laying off 73 employees at 6110 Commerce St. in Tampa on June 16. North Ridge Medical Center is laying off 405 employees at 5757 N. Dixie Hwy in Ft. Lauderdale on June 1. PRC is laying off 424 employees at 2000 N. State Road 7 in Margate on June 30. Safe Children Coalition Operations is laying off 93 employees at 6451 126th Ave. N., Suite 300 in Largo on July 1. Select Medical Corp. is laying off 84 employees at 2120 Sarno Road in Melbourne by Oct. 2. Sourcecorp BPS Inc. is laying off 58 employees at 3090 Carus Court, Suite 50, in Orlando on May 31. Thies Distributing is laying off 147 employees at 10455 Riverside Drive in Palm Beach Gardens; 99 employees at 201 E. Coast St. in Lake Worth; and 62 employees at 3501 S. E. Commerce Ave. in Stuart, on June 30. VEOLIA Transportation laid off 153 employees at 1500 SW 40th St. in Fort Lauderdale on April 30. Whole Foods Market Group Inc. is laying off 57 employees at 1135 W. New Haven Ave. in Melbourne on June 2. more...