Fernando Palazeulo is restoring the 40-acre Packard Plant complex in Detroit, starting with the pedestrian bridge over East Grand Boulevard: he's had it draped in a covering that makes the bridge ...
For a company that faded out nearly 70 years ago, Packard has left indelible marks on the Detroit area. The sprawling, abandoned and ... 20 miles due north of the plant — has flourished as ...
In September, 2009, a dump truck got pushed out of the window on the fourth floor of an abandoned Packard plant in Detroit. Videographer Stephen McGee captured the event on tape.
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Built in the early 1900s, the Packard plant was designed by Albert Kahn. The company became a dominant luxury carmaker in the United States in the late 1920s, and by the 1940s had 36,000 employees.