The results of an international Packard plant "ideas" competition for "Re-animating the Ruins" have recently been posted here:
http://parallelprojections.com/rtr-results

What do you think about these schemes? Can we get beyond the eternal naysayer responses described in this post:
http://farrowpartnership.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/why-the-packard-plant-will-fly-lessons-from-the-high-line/