Re: One Story Assembly Plant What If?

Posted by Steve203 On 2014/5/17 21:27:37

<i>It took an eternity to tear down the Hudson Plant in Detroit-which was also made similar to the Packard Plant. I know... I watched them from my family's store as day after day, month after month they swung wrecking balls at the thing and it did nothing but shake a little.</i>

Somewhere, I saw an estimate that it would have cost Packard $1M to tear EGB down in the 50s.

As it is, the scrappers have made quite an attack in recent years. As all the more valuable metal was stripped years ago, they are going after the steel roof trusses and rebar now. They figured out that if they started a fire, the heat would weaken the concrete, making it easier to break up to get at the rebar. There are areas now where the top floor is almost gone. A year or two back people in the neighborhood had to get a crew out from Channel 2 to film the rubble that had fallen into Concord St, when a section of top floor wall collapsed, because the city had been ignoring their calls.