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The factories weren't built near existing neighborhoods. They were on the outskirts of the city. If you look at Google Maps in satellite view, you can see the ring of these industrial areas to this day. The problem was that Detroit grew out to this ring, and nobody [[with any money) wanted to live next to a tire factory or steel mill, so people started moving to the far side of that ring. Some of those areas became Detroit, too, but some of those areas became the suburbs.

The Packard Plant was built in a growing neighborhood near Grand Blvd. The Ford Plant on Mack and Beaufalt was built in the middle of an existing neighborhood.