Article: Build or else; Auto dealer given an ultimatum by GM.(MONEY)

Byline: Brian Lee

SOUTHBRIDGE - The owner of Knight Chevrolet on Route 169 says spending millions of dollars on a new building without any assurance that he would continue as a dealer would be a clunker of a deal.

According to Chester F. Pietrzak, a northeast General Motors executive in recent months asked him to build a multimillion-dollar building on his Worcester Street site.

If not, GM wouldn't send Mr. Pietrzak any 2010 automobiles.

"I said, `What kind of guarantees are you going to give us we're going to have a franchise?' He said, `We don't give those anymore. There is no guarantee.'"

Mr. Pietrzak said he is balking at ...

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