Re: One Story Assembly Plant What If?
Posted by RogerDetroit On 2014/6/22 22:33:53
The mid-rise building in the upper, right-hand corner was a Michigan Bell Telephone exchange building - it is on the east side of Connor and south of Warren Avenue. That building has been drastically altered and they cut off all the upper floors and now only the first floor remains.
North of the MBT building was the Parkside Homes government housing project and north of that was Chandler Park.
Due west across Connor from the MBT became a neighborhood shopping center with a Sam's Department store, but that was built in the late 1950's IIRC. The shopping center still stand , but now with a lot of mom & pop tenants. It is the bright white roofed building in the AFTER photo below.
I was a little too young to remember the Connor Avenue/Street Plant. But I seem to recall that after Packard moved out it became a discount warehouse and my mom bought a bed and mattress for my bed there - was a long time ago.
I have attached a Google Earth aerial for comparison.
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North of the MBT building was the Parkside Homes government housing project and north of that was Chandler Park.
Due west across Connor from the MBT became a neighborhood shopping center with a Sam's Department store, but that was built in the late 1950's IIRC. The shopping center still stand , but now with a lot of mom & pop tenants. It is the bright white roofed building in the AFTER photo below.
I was a little too young to remember the Connor Avenue/Street Plant. But I seem to recall that after Packard moved out it became a discount warehouse and my mom bought a bed and mattress for my bed there - was a long time ago.
I have attached a Google Earth aerial for comparison.
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