The City of Tuscaloosa is located in West Alabama on the Black Warrior River, 57 miles southwest of Birmingham. Tuscaloosa is the county seat of 1,340 square mile Tuscaloosa County, which also includes the municipalities of Northport and Brookwood. The City's 77,906 inhabitants (2000) represent over half of Tuscaloosa County's 164,875 population. The home of the University of Alabama, Stillman College, Shelton State Community College, and several large hospitals, Tuscaloosa looms large in the educational and institutional infrastructure of Alabama. Its diversified industrial base is anchored by the 1,900 employee Mercedes-Benz M-Class SUV assembly plant which commenced production in 1997. The plant had already undergone two 40 million expansion when, in August 2000, Mercedes-Benz announced a $600 million project to double the plant's size and production capacity by the year 2004, employing an additional 2,000 workers. When the expansion is completed, the plant will have a capacity of approximately 160,000 units per year.

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