Old Detroit factories face wrecking ball and redevelopment as urban blight spreads in US
Once one of the city’s industrial jewels, the massive Packard complex is now one of the United States’ foremost examples of urban blight.
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Once one of the city’s industrial jewels, the massive Packard complex is now one of the United States’ foremost examples of urban blight.
The city has aggressively taken on its blight problem.
The city has aggressively taken on its blight problem.
Detroit and other cities are looking to get rid of large eyesores to open up those spaces for redevelopment. For Detroit, that could mean rebuilding now mostly Black neighborhoods that thrived when factories were built decades ago and before the whites who worked in them moved away.
Detroit has aggressively taken on its blight problem since emerging from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history eight years ago.