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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.