1956
Packard’s Detroit factory, which once produced some of America’s finest automobiles and today stands in ruin and decay, may finally be entering its last days. News outlets have reported that the property’s owner is preparing to tear down the 3.5-million-square-foot complex on East Grand Boulevard.
According to the Detroit Free Press, the owner, Dominic Cistini, has hired Antonio Carlomusto, owner of AVC Services, to oversee the demolition work. Carlomusto has told the Free Press that a perimeter fence will soon be put up, with demolition to begin in 90 days or so. There are apparently questions about how the work, estimated by the city of Detroit at $20 million, will be paid for. Cistini, whose own estimate is just $3 million, has said he expects the sale of steel from the plant will balance out the cost, although skeptics have pointed out that much of the complex’s steel has already been taken away by scrappers. The bulk of the existing structure is of reinforced concrete.
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