Detroit starts removing blight caused by white flight

The 3.5 million-square-foot (0.33 million-square-meter) Packard plant complex is among dozens of large structures that Detroit officials have identified to be torn down or renovated.

DETROIT (AP) — Demolition of the long-vacant Packard auto plant in Detroit started Thursday as crews began tearing apart an already crumbling exterior wall of the massive structure.

A demolition claw ripped and tugged on decades-old bricks and concrete along the upper floors of the old eastside factory that for generations has been a  today! 

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