Originally Posted by
56packman
Dammit, here we go again. THe Packard plant was never "abandoned" until the city of Detroit, from the mayor's office began efforts to sieze the complex from its owners for back taxes without due process, in 1999. Packard Motor Car Company discontinued production at the plant in September of 1954, moving to a briggs plant on Conner and east Warren. They continued to use the office on EGB until the fall of 1956, when the new owners of Studebaker-Packard, Curtis-Wright closed all Detroit operations. Since that time the facility had been a business center much like the Russell Industrial Center or the [[former) Ford model T plant in Highland Park, divided into smaller sections for tennants.
I was one of several people who had space in the Packard plant, it was an excellent place for storage or light business needs and had several large tennants, Essex Wire being one.
So DY members, please stop saying "the Packard plant has been abandoned since Packard went out of business", it is not true.
well, just call me "broken record"