Sad but if feels like a fog of gloom and despair is lifting as the building comes down. The building's emptiness has loomed over the community for so long even though what it represents built the community in the first place. I hope they can revitalize the area over time, a new chapter.
50 plus years of freezing & thawing, rain & sunshine compromised the steel rebar and concrete. That building couldn’t physically support any kind of business. The structure comes apart into dust/dirt and just collapses on itself. No continuous maintenance on this complex did it in for good. The Studebaker plant in South Bend, Indiana went through the same fate and was demolished a decade ago. All the empty land around the Packard plant were businesses that supported the facility in its heyday. Once workers are let go due to circumstances of the auto company there was no way of bringing it back to its glory days.
My Great Grandfather built a 100x100 barn 130 years ago for cattle out of concrete. Nothing like it existed at the time and the same thing with the rebar drawing moisture, spalling the concrete, it became unsafe. All things come to an end. Do you know if they are crushing the debris off site and recycling the material when loaded out or is it dumped?
I wouldn’t grow anything on any of that land were those factories stood , all that soil is probably contaminated with lead, asbestos and all kids of other chemicals.
@@robertjaime6808 with in the world of soil and land remediation trees and plants are grown to take up the contamination, those trees are later removed and burned at a special facility. It can take years, but there is hope in recovering the land back to usefulness.
@@underthebluesky92 …..Here in California, we build houses or shopping centers on those lands but before any construction starts, the EPA does soil testing just to see how bad or good the soil is and they also test the water to see it ain’t contaminated with lead or other chemicals. It’s a real big progress but it’s nice to see areas like that being “alive” again and not all depressing.
50 years plus it has sat it was a beautiful building at one time they should have saved it than but I'll give the democrat mayor credit he is the first one to do anything about these old vacant hazards.
@@sailawaybob At least the MC station is being renovated. With any luck the trains will be back. But in the Packard plant's case, the taxpayers pay to clear the site, private contractors build on it and make the money. Publicize the risk, privatise the profit. Isn't that they way.
What are all those You Tubers going to do, without a derelict Packard Plant to feature in their videos, stating how terrible the city of Detroit is, and the whole city should be condemned? 😀
They will probably just move on to Flint, and Lansing, whatever is easiest to film through their windshields, without doing anything positive to help the situation. Better than having to get a real job, where a supervisor might actually require them to meet some requirements. Plenty of jobs available in the suburbs, if they want to experience real factory life.
Toledo, Cleveland, and Youngstown will beckon the urban ruin porn guys since those three Ohio cities are complete urban disaster areas waiting to be discovered.
Sad but if feels like a fog of gloom and despair is lifting as the building comes down. The building's emptiness has loomed over the community for so long even though what it represents built the community in the first place. I hope they can revitalize the area over time, a new chapter.
Just WOW!
Thank you!
My Grandfather worked there from 1925 until his retirement in 1952. They lived a few blocks away from the plant on Helen St
Thank you for sharing your story!
It is about damn time Detriot started to clean up all the abandoned buildings, structures, houses and started to revitalize the city!
Odd how much is gone, yet so much more to do.
50 plus years of freezing & thawing, rain & sunshine compromised the steel rebar and concrete. That building couldn’t physically support any kind of business. The structure comes apart into dust/dirt and just collapses on itself. No continuous maintenance on this complex did it in for good. The Studebaker plant in South Bend, Indiana went through the same fate and was demolished a decade ago. All the empty land around the Packard plant were businesses that supported the facility in its heyday. Once workers are let go due to circumstances of the auto company there was no way of bringing it back to its glory days.
Many people don’t understand this! The cost to repair or replace the damaged materials would be simply too high.
@@shaneharrison9609 -you are right i am talking about plants that closed and moved away the lost jobs -echoes of the past is all.
The end of a sad reminder of one of the jewels in Detroit's manufacturing empire, now long gone and mostly forgotten.
My Great Grandfather built a 100x100 barn 130 years ago for cattle out of concrete. Nothing like it existed at the time and the same thing with the rebar drawing moisture, spalling the concrete, it became unsafe. All things come to an end.
Do you know if they are crushing the debris off site and recycling the material when loaded out or is it dumped?
Operator of that sheer is very very good
Gradually the quality of life is getting around this complex of buildings.
always sad to see a part of our industrial might turn to dust. very sad
Be nice to see it returned to farm land or a big park, something green.
Hantz could buy this site as well, but perhaps put in a crop of cotton instead of planting pine trees.
I wouldn’t grow anything on any of that land were those factories stood , all that soil is probably contaminated with lead, asbestos and all kids of other chemicals.
@@robertjaime6808 with in the world of soil and land remediation trees and plants are grown to take up the contamination, those trees are later removed and burned at a special facility. It can take years, but there is hope in recovering the land back to usefulness.
@@underthebluesky92 …..Here in California, we build houses or shopping centers on those lands but before any construction starts, the EPA does soil testing just to see how bad or good the soil is and they also test the water to see it ain’t contaminated with lead or other chemicals. It’s a real big progress but it’s nice to see areas like that being “alive” again and not all depressing.
Honestly, I would most likely say it would be turned into a museum about Packards...
Not much left of vintage Detroit.
Why not use dynamite? It would be a lot faster.
And a lot more fun!
My thoughts as well. Drop it like an old Vegas hotel and casino!
Interesting but who is payig for the demolition?
The taxpayers.
@@michaelanthonyvideos No surprise there.
50 years plus it has sat it was a beautiful building at one time they should have saved it than but I'll give the democrat mayor credit he is the first one to do anything about these old vacant hazards.
@@sailawaybob At least the MC station is being renovated. With any luck the trains will be back. But in the Packard plant's case, the taxpayers pay to clear the site, private contractors build on it and make the money. Publicize the risk, privatise the profit. Isn't that they way.
Sad...
What are all those You Tubers going to do, without a derelict Packard Plant to feature in their videos, stating how terrible the city of Detroit is, and the whole city should be condemned? 😀
There are countless buildings like this in Detroit.
They will probably just move on to Flint, and Lansing, whatever is easiest to film through their windshields, without doing anything positive to help the situation. Better than having to get a real job, where a supervisor might actually require them to meet some requirements. Plenty of jobs available in the suburbs, if they want to experience real factory life.
Detroit is a great city. I was born and raised in the city.
@@ramblerdave1339 Many jobs in the city of Detroit as well.
Toledo, Cleveland, and Youngstown will beckon the urban ruin porn guys since those three Ohio cities are complete urban disaster areas waiting to be discovered.