Demolition of the Packard plant has begun

[BobWaitz]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/packard-plant-demolition-begins-today/ar-AA12oy2q?cvid=abec9d0d0363475eaf16a2655e245766

[willys54]

Sad day for the once mighty US car industry.

[bezhawk]

Good. Regardless of your feelings towards it's glorious past, it's still the past, and it is a cancer on Detroit. It was beyond redemption decades ago.

[8E45E]

It's been mostly vacant longer than it was fully occupied.

One can bet if Packard was still making cars today, that factory complex would have been replaced with a far more modern, automated facility long ago.

GM's grim legacy to Detroit is the Fisher Body Plant 21 which is just as blighted as the Packard plant. Detroit's abandoned Fisher Body Plant No. 21 to become housing (freep.com)

Craig

[willys54]

I would speculate there is more cancer in Detroit than an old Packard Plant

[PackardV8]

An extraterrestrial visiting Detroit would speculate it had been hit by a neutron bomb; designed to destroy people while preserving property.

jack vines