Packard Plant bids reach $225,000 as auction ends today
Whoever buys the lawless wasteland will incur hefty costs for a property that is constantly on fire and crumbling.
Group tours at Packard Plant? Visitors placed at risk
For whatever reason, the risks aren’t deterring opportunists from profiting off of group tours of the cavernous ruins.
Photos: About 60 North End homes sell for as low as $500
Most of the properties didn’t sell during the Wayne County tax-foreclosure auction Monday.
9 ugly Detroit houses selling for $500
Many of the houses up for auction are dilapidated and structurally unsound.
Tourists carjacked while taking photos at Packard Plant
The carjacking is just the latest attack at what has become a lawless wasteland on Detroit’s east side.
Police: Packard Plant isn’t our problem, despite scrapping
DPD denies evidence of a brazen, dangerous scrapping operation that is putting motorists and residents at risk.
Bold scrappers cause partial collapse at Packard Plant
Firefighters perused the debris for a scrapper who had become pinned in the debris.
World-famous Kronk Gym knocked out by neglect in Detroit
Hopes of reviving the building vanished with the death of legendary boxing trainer Emanuel Steward.
Packard Plant burns; developer misses deadline to buy ruins
It was back to usual at the abandoned, sprawling Packard Plant on Detroit’s east side.
Will Packard Plant see new life? Plans comes down to wire
Time is running out for a developer to transform Detroit’s symbol of industrial decline into housing, restaurants, retail space, offices and a hotel.