The fabled Packard factory in Detroit — it could be yours for $21,500

[Auggie]

It’s the factory on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit, where some of the most famous luxury cars of the 1930s and 1940s were built. You see them at the big-deal concours d’elegance all over the world, such as Pebble Beach and Amelia Island.

Packard was also known for the big engines it made for American fighting machines during World War II — it built V12 engines, with up to 1,500 horsepower, for the Navy’s PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats.

Now the factory, a severely looted and vandalized skeleton of its former self, is on the block for an auction to be conducted by Wayne County (the Michigan county where Detroit is located) some time later this month (October,) according to this story in Hemmings Daily.

Think of it. You could have this venerable factory for the price of a stripped Honda Accord.

PHOTOS AT LINK: http://blog.sfgate.com/topdown/2013/10/04/the-fabled-packard-factory-in-detroit-it-could-be-yours-for-21500/#16555-1

[hunter]

1. I think Detroit would be the perfect place for a National University.

Tuition would be free, food and housing would be free, and it would accept students from every state and U.S. territory. It would also accept children of undocumented workers who graduate from U.S. public high schools and plan to become U.S. citizens.

Majors and certifications would be somewhat limited to subjects where there is a public need, for example primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, teachers, other professions now often open to H1-B visa workers, etc., etc.

It would be a place where students from wealthy to impoverished backgrounds, students of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds, could interact with one another and learn how to work together. Since this would be one of the goals of the university, I think it should be a single campus, to prevent geographical segregation.

Upon graduation there would be no obligation but to go out and make the world a better place.

[Roland99]

4. Interesting....

GOP would never go for it unless Jerry Falwell was involved somehow, though.

[Voice for Peace]

7. very nice idea

keep envisioning it.. maybe the inspiration will
reach the right parties.

[Erose999]

2. Doesn't look too venerable any more, sadly. It'd be cheaper to tear it down than fix it up. And it'd

cost millions just to tear it down.

[Auggie]

3. Could make a good W.P.A. project ...

if we had such a program

[hootinholler]

5. I have to wonder how contaminated that is.

That would make a fine urban hydroponic farm. Tillapia in the water tanks and veg in the trays.

[Auggie]

6. Or a factory that makes solar panels