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Detroit Targets Old Industry Sites To Improve Neighborhoods

Exterior of the Packard Plant on Detroit’s east side, Thursday, June 30, 2022. The factory built in the early 1900s turned out high-end cars into the 1950s. It was considered one of the city’s automotive jewels, but now is among the nation’s most notorious examples of urban blight. Parts of the 3.5 million-square-foot, 40-acre Packard plant complex will be demolished by the year’s end. AP photo

DETROIT — One of the first things 84-year-old Mahalie Wilson sees when she steps out of her home on Detroit’s east side is the brick,…

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