when did the packard plant close in detroit
1958
title: Packard text: the United States and abroad, competing with European marques like Rolls-Royce and Mercedes Benz. The Packard plant on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit was located on over of land. Designed by Albert Kahn Associates, it included an early use of reinforced concrete for an automotive factory when building #10 opened in early 1906. Its skilled craftsmen practiced over 80 trades. The dilapidated plant still stands, despite repeated fires. The factory is in close proximity to the current General Motors Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly, which was the former site of the Dodge Vehicle factory from 1910 until 1980. Architect Kahn also designed the title: Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly text: 12) in Detroit which was the main facility for all Cadillacs starting in 1921. It is about one mile west of the former Packard Automotive Plant. The plant currently builds vehicles for GM's Chevrolet, Cadillac and Buick divisions and has approximately 1,800 hourly and salaried employees. Since opening in 1985, more than 4 million vehicles have been built at the plant. GM announced the elimination of second shift and 1,300 jobs at the plant in December 2016, less than twelve months after the second shift was added. On November 26, 2018, GM announced that the plant would be unallocated in title: Packard Automotive Plant text: the former 121,000-square-foot administrative building on the site. On August 12, 2017, the inaugural public tour of the property was conducted, which included access to the second floor of the administration building on the complex's western side. It is predicted that office space in the administration building could become available as early as 2019. Packard Automotive Plant The Packard Automotive Plant is a former automobile-manufacturing factory in Detroit, Michigan where luxury cars were made by the Packard Motor Car Company and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation. The 3,500,000-square-foot (325,000 m), plant was designed by Albert Kahn Associates using Trussed Concrete title: Packard text: nearly quiet and smooth experience on the road. However, it struggled to keep pace with the horsepower race. In May 1952, aging Packard president Hugh Ferry resigned and was succeeded by James J. Nance, a marketing specialist recruited from Hotpoint to turn the stagnant company around; its main factory on Detroit's East Grand Boulevard was operating at only 50% capacity. Nance worked to snag Korean War military contracts and turn around Packard's badly diluted image. He declared that from now on, Packard would cease producing midpriced cars and build only luxury models to compete with Cadillac. As part of this title: Packard Automotive Plant text: Packard Automotive Plant The Packard Automotive Plant is a former automobile-manufacturing factory in Detroit, Michigan where luxury cars were made by the Packard Motor Car Company and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation. The 3,500,000-square-foot (325,000 m), plant was designed by Albert Kahn Associates using Trussed Concrete Steel Company products. It is located on of land on East Grand Boulevard on the city's east side. It included the first use of reinforced concrete in the United States for industrial construction in the automobile industry. The Packard plant was opened in 1903 and at the time was considered the most modern automobile