The Packard Automotive Plant. It was never small. It was never quiet. It was Detroit at full throttle. The Packard Plant wasn’t just a factory. It was a city within a city, 3.5 million square feet of steel, concrete, and roaring ambition. Built in 1903 and designed by Albert Kahn, it was the first auto plant in Detroit made with reinforced concrete. Bright. Open. Fireproof. A new blueprint for industrial America. By the 1940s, over 40,000 people worked inside. Packard built some of the world’s f

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Five years ago, the Packard Plant was a symbol of blight that weighed heavily on the families who lived around it. Today, we’re replacing that burden with opportunity and beauty: a 393K sq ft Class-A industrial building with 300 good-paying jobs, and a restored Albert Kahn building with new housing, culture, community space and Detroit’s FIRST indoor skate park. This is how we honor our history, by building something better for the people who stayed. Learn more - Detroitmi.gov/engagedetroit | Ci