A global auto parts supplier is up and running at Detroit's Interstate 94 Industrial Park.

Flex-N-Gate Detroit owner Shahid Khan, Gov. Rick Snyder and Mayor Mike Duggan officially opened the $160 million, 480,000-square-foot facility Monday afternoon.

The city said it's the largest investment in Detroit by an auto supplier in more than 20 years. Flex-N-Gate makes exterior trim components and other products. It will supply parts to Ford Motor Co.

Flex-N-Gate is partnering with the city on access to jobs and job training for city residents. About half of the plant's 230 current employees live in Detroit. Up to 750 people could be employed at the facility.

The Detroit City Council approved a nearly $6 million property tax abatement to support the project.

Flex-N-Gate owner Shahid Khan previously said the Urbana, Ill.-based auto parts supplier chose the site after he was personally urged by Ford Motor Co. Chairman Bill Ford Jr. to build a plant in Detroit.

"Nothing starts without a customer and here Ford is really the great impetus in this development in really a critical part of America that really needs this investment," said Khan, a Pakistani-American billionaire and owner of the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars.

Flex-N-Gate has other manufacturing facilities on Coolidge Highway in Royal Oak and three plants in Warren on East Nine Mile Road, Groesbeck Highway and East 11 Mile Road.

The company is getting a Renaissance Zone tax break of $5.9 million over 10 years on its corporate income tax, city property tax and utility users tax. Flex-N-Gate also was granted an abatement of half of debt millage taxes, Crain's reported previously. The Michigan Strategic Fund approved a $3.5 million brownfield grant to help fund environmental pollution remediation at the site.

Detroit sold the vacant land to Flex-N-Gate for $1.3 million. The land was previously residential, but had been vacant for years.

Flex-n-Gate ranks No. 33 on the Automotive News list of the top 100 global suppliers with worldwide sales to automakers of $7.55 billion in 2017.

— The Associated Press contributed to this report.