LORDSTOWN, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine isn’t optimistic that General Motors will bring a line of new vehicles to the Ohio assembly plant the automaker shut down last week.

GM indicated it has been in talks with one or more other companies about taking over the site for another use, said DeWine, a Republican. DeWine told The Vindicator in Youngstown that “it’s clear to me that they’re looking not at putting a new line” of vehicles in the plant.

The plant in Lordstown, which employed more than 4,000 workers just two years ago, built its last Chevy Cruze a week ago, eliminating the final 1,700 positions left at the factory.

GM has not said whether it will be closed permanently, instead saying that the plant will be kept in a “state of readiness.” and that its fate will be decided in contract negotiations.