Much of the plant had been owned by Fernando Palazuelo, a Spanish developer most recently living in Peru, who bought the site in a Wayne County tax-foreclosure auction for just $405,000 in 2014. In ...
CLEVELAND (WJW) — Packard Motors, an American luxury car and timepiece manufacturer, is launching the revival of a classic car already generating buzz around the world. “This is a sleeping giant ...
America's premier luxury marque in the 1920s and 1930s, Packard emerged from World War 2 in excellent financial condition. However, several management mistakes and the inability to introduce a ...
Packard began as America’s gentleman engineer: conservative tailoring over cutting-edge bones. In 1915, the company stunned rivals with the Twin Six V12, among the earliest production twelves, whisper ...
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan on Monday announced an ambitious plan to transform 28 acres of the long-abandoned Packard Plant into a mixed-use district with housing, manufacturing, and cultural space.
General Motors, Ford, and the various incarnations of the Chrysler Corp. have their historical landmarks dotting the landscape of southeast Michigan, but it's a lot harder to find evidence of the many ...
The gigantic Packard Auto Plant has been a 3,500,000-square-foot cancer in the heart of Detroit's Eastside since the brand shuttered the facility in 1956 — two years before the brand would also ...
Last year the DEGC put out a request for redevelopment proposals for the site. There was one respondent, Kansas City, Missouri-based NorthPoint Development, which proposed building two large ...
Packard’s debut of the wood-trimmed station sedan in 1948 was among the first signs that interesting cars were back for postwar America. The woody, an established body style, was a working commercial ...
A car crash on the Dumbarton Bridge near Hayward left a classic car destroyed and traffic snarled on Sunday afternoon. Four ...