Leeedy wrote:
Also, much of the reason why the plant became so isolated (aside from city battles over taxes, greed and other reasons) was that very freeway. Grand Blvd WAS the main traffic artery in Detroit in that area until Edsel Ford Freeway was completed. After that, it was like the same thing that happened to Route 66 after the big new federal interstates were built. The steady stream of cars on Grand Blvd. past the plant was slowed to a trickle after the expressway was built.

The overgrown green area to the right of the photo showing the Packard Bridge used to be the main employee's parking lot. It was once packed with cars on any weekday. some of them even Packards!