It’s great to have that blight removed,” a neighboring business leader says. “It’s great to have the neighborhood looking like it's on its way back." ...

Even if you don't know Detroit, odds are you know the city's derelict Packard plant ... it may be years before the buildings come down. Check out the video below to see the plant as it sits ...

Fernando Palazeulo is restoring the 40-acre Packard Plant complex in Detroit, starting with the pedestrian bridge over East Grand Boulevard: he's had it draped in a covering that makes the bridge ...

Built in the early 1900s, the Packard plant was designed by Albert Kahn. The company became a dominant luxury carmaker in the United States in the late 1920s, and by the 1940s had 36,000 employees.

Moody's Investors Service upgraded Detroit's bond rating by two notches ... the American Rescue Plan Act money to remove the Packard Plant, the long-vacant YMCA and other blighted properties.

In September, 2009, a dump truck got pushed out of the window on the fourth floor of an abandoned Packard plant in Detroit. Videographer Stephen McGee captured the event on tape.

It's one thing to imagine what the ruins that now litter parts of Detroit looked like in their heyday. It's another thing to perfectly capture what all those places once were. Photo project ...