Just realized the old Packard Plant site changed more in 2 years than the last 20

Went by the old Packard Plant last week and saw actual cranes and work crews after driving past it for two decades of nothing, turns out a single developer buying the whole lot in 2022 finally broke the stalemate anyone else seen a similar shift in other dead zones around town?

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rubys8018d ago

That's wild to see the Packard Plant actually moving after all those years. Reminds me of the old Michigan Central Station in Corktown, sat empty forever until Ford came in and bought it up. Your mileage may vary on if these big developer buys are a good thing though, sometimes they just sit on the land for tax breaks. I drove past the Packard spot last month and felt like I was seeing a ghost town finally breathing again. Kind of makes you wonder what other projects are just waiting for one person to take the plunge, you know?

jesse_green5518d ago

Watched them strip the old train station piece by piece and it hit me - these projects are actually changing how people see the whole city. People used to treat Detroit like a punchline but now you got companies fighting to buy up these old shells. The real shift is in the kids who grew up seeing nothing but decay. My nephew is 16 and he's actually talking about staying in the city after school because he sees stuff happening. That's the kind of change you can't measure in square footage or tax credits.

sullivan.spencer18d ago

Little things add up over time. I started my landscaping business out of a busted truck and one job led to another, now I got three crews running steady.