The phrase "a former plant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a facility or factory that was previously operational but is no longer in use.
Example: "The city is planning to convert a former plant into a community center to revitalize the area."
Alternatives: "an old factory" or "a previous manufacturing site".
It is the site of a former plant for Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company.
Many cities -- especially Youngstown, a former plant there shown above -- never really emerged from the recession of 2001.
Nine days after the plant closed on Feb. 1, a 16-year-old girl attempted suicide, after her mother, a former plant worker, told her they might move.
"Obviously, they are planning to scale up," says Mark Stevens, a former plant manager for General Motors and now a project manager at the Centre for Automotive Research.
Steps away, inside a former plant nursery, is a stylish restaurant serving seasonal dishes sourced from Long Meadow Ranch's working farm in Rutherford.
Robert S. Rester, a former plant manager in Birmingham, said his workers fooled environmental regulators by submitting samples from the city water supply.
One new model is The Plant, a former meatpacking plant in Chicago that has been converted into an indoor vertical farm.
Part of the London 2012 festival, it's at a former chemical plant, the Argyle Works in Birmingham, and features a string quartet playing from four flying helicopters.
Today he works in a former G.M. plant now owned by Magnequench International Inc., a Chinese company.
Punch International already has an automotive transmission plant in Strasbourg, France, which was also a former GM plant and had been slated for closure when Dumarey took it over.
By 2010, the only people working in the former plant were a pair of historians, cataloguing its aerospace past.
