Search for $10,000 leads to dingy sofa at Packard Plant
Muralist David Choe is expected to continue dropping hints on Facebook.
Muralist David Choe is expected to continue dropping hints on Facebook.
Packard owner Dominic Cristini was shocked to hear the news when we contacted him this afternoon.
It’s the second installation in a series called “We are zombies” by guerrilla artist “Penny Gaff.”
“I placed the sign on the overpass, the gateway to Detroit, the heart of a once booming industrial America, full of capitalist promise and hope,” the alleged artist wrote.
A popular Detroit blogger tore down an offensive message Tuesday on the overpass of the abandoned Packard Plant that alluded to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Motorists driving past the Packard Plant were greeted this morning with the same chilling words that were placed at the entrances of numerous concentration camps – “Arbeit Macht Frei.”
Heavy fog blanketed Detroit earlier this week, giving the illusion of a fading city. But Detroit is anything but.
Police were seen patrolling the perimeter of the plant Monday, even as suburban teens threw bricks at buildings and thieves continued to load pickup trucks with scrap metal.
Last week, Bing’s office and the police department told us they were oblivious to a large backhoe and dozens of scrappers who have been aggressively tearing apart the asbesto-laden Packard over the past three months.
As I write this, thieves in a backhoe are stealing large metal beams even as a fire burns in the plant, a few buildings away.