"New Life for Detroit's Packard Plant?" Cars In Context, Episode #67

Show host and native Detroiter John Clor visits the ruins of Detroit's famed Packard Plant with auto historian Joe Babiasz after the long-shuttered 3,500,000-square-foot auto factory complex was purchased earlier this year by Peruvian real estate developer Fernando Palazuelo. The Cars In Context team conducts an exclusive interview with Palazuelo in an on-site office alongside his Arte Express Project Manager, Kari Smith, M.S. We are then allowed to take a camera crew inside the crumbling plant to explore some of the construction techniques used by famed architect Albert Kahn back in 1903. The Packard factory closed in 1958 and for the next half-century has been ravaged by vandals and scrappers, becoming "Ruin Porn" for those who would document Detroit's decline and the off-shoring of the U.S. auto industry. Don't miss this EXCLUSIVE and legally obtained with owner permission footage inside one of the most noted automotive landmarks in The Motor City. (See our "most watched" episode -- a photo essay and discussion on the Packard Plant in our pre-Cars In Context show, "In A Heartbeat," also on this site.)