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Home»Posts tagged with»ruins

Packard Plant owner pays delinquent taxes, readies for cleanup

By Steve Neavling on August 6, 2014   Development, Headline, Urban Renewal  

Packard Plant owner pays delinquent taxes, readies for cleanup

For the first time in decades, someone is paying property taxes on the abandoned Packard Plant.

Exclusive: New Packard Plant owner at risk of losing property over delinquent taxes

By Steve Neavling on June 25, 2014   Abandoned Buildings, Art & Entertainment, Buildings, Headline  

Exclusive: New Packard Plant owner at risk of losing property over delinquent taxes

Peru-based developer Fernando Palazuelo is more than $80,000 delinquent on property taxes and late fees on the abandoned Packard Plant that he purchased six months ago at a tax-foreclosure auction.

Bidder must pay $1.8 million today to buy Packard Plant

By Steve Neavling on November 15, 2013   Abandoned Buildings, Buildings, Life in Detroit, posts, Real Estate, The Packard Plant  

Bidder must pay $1.8 million today to buy Packard Plant

Bill Hults already paid $200,000 in nonrefundable deposits for the 40-acre ruins.

Tourists carjacked while taking photos at Packard Plant

By Steve Neavling on October 19, 2013   Abandoned Buildings, Buildings, Crime & Fire, Headline, Life in Detroit, Police, posts  

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.

Going, going, not gone! No takers in Packard auction

By Steve Neavling on September 24, 2013   Headline, posts  

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.

Steve Neavling

Steve Neavling lives and works in Detroit as an investigative journalist. His stories have uncovered corruption, led to arrests and reforms and prompted FBI investigations.

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