LANSING, MI -- The new Chevrolet Camaro will be unveiled in Detroit on May 16, but it will be built at General Motors' Grand River Plant in downtown Lansing.

Mike Green is president of UAW Local 652, whose members will be building the car.

"We're very excited, the membership's excited about building this car and we can hardly wait," Green said.

An GM spokesperson declined to announce an exact production date, but Lansing complex Plant Manager Mike Trevorrow said as the plant takes on the Camaro "we'll man up accordingly."

The plant currently runs one shift. It produces the sedan and coupe versions of the Cadillac ATS, the Cadillac CTS, and the V versions of all three vehicles.

The Camaro in recent years has topped the list of best-sellers for similar cars.

Trevorrow said the Camaro, most recently produced in Canada, was produced in California before that. This will be the first time the car has been made in Michigan.

"The part that we're excited about is this is the American muscle car coming back home, made right here in Lansing Michigan," Green said.

Trevorrow said that some of the workers on the floor in Lansing area plants now are second and third generation car builders for GM.

Green said he was thankful GM was entrusting those workers to build the Camaro, and pointed to a long automotive history in Lansing that went back to Oldsmobile.

"Everything we've built here has always been world-class," Green said.

Emily Lawler is a Capitol/Lansing business reporter for MLive. You can reach her at elawler@mlive.com, subscribe to her on Facebook or follow her on Twitter: @emilyjanelawler.