The True Detroit Tour

Like this--here's a revised itinerary for anyone wanting to take a tour of the true Detroit. First stop: the Packard plant ruins.

Packard Plant. One of the most modern factories in the world when built in the early 1900s, the plant closed in 1958 and has slowly rotted away ever since. George Galster, a Wayne State University professor and author of “Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City,” says the Packard Plant “symbolizes the massive post-war loss of industrial tax base from the city.”