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.
In Detroit, it takes a block to save a neighborhood
It’s the kind of place where you brag about hosting a block party in which no one was assaulted.
Thousands of books discarded in Detroit schools, libraries
Vacate a building. Leave everything behind. That’s the Detroit way.
Going, going, not gone! No takers in Packard auction
Now the city must make a tough decision – take possession of the property or sell it for pennies on the dollar.
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.
Chicago investor closer to buying vacant Packard Plant
The plan calls for turning the abandoned plant into a sprawling hub for housing, office space and entertainment.
Massive manhunt ends with capture of suspect near Packard
A 14-hour manhunt for an inmate who stabbed a deputy in the neck and fled the scene in a stolen car ended late this evening.
Peregrine falcons, chicks in danger atop vacant building
Vandals, scrappers and urban explorers are disrupting a pair of peregrine falcons and their chicks atop the Whittier.
Photos: Scavenging for scrap metal
Who are the scrappers? They are laid-off autoworkers, drug addicts, high school dropouts and others trying to get by.