While we are on the topic of EGB, I was invited earlier this year to represent the Packard community on a panel to select the winning entries for "reanimate the ruins" a competition for architects/students to re-imagine the potential uses for (what is left of) the Packard Plant. We met and selected the winners last Thursday. I was the only non-architect on the panel. My basic feeling is that the plant is a goner, and needs to just go away. Historically everything that made it Packard is gone, and the wild-wild-west scrapping and exposure to the elements has weakened the structure to the point where I don't see it feasible, but hey, what do I know?
Senior Sexy-voice from South America thinks it can happen, so I helped with/confused this process with my historical context. Heard a lot of what they call "Archi-babble".
Here is a link to the competition results, enjoy.
In the interest of full disclosure, they bought a good deal of very good beer afterwards.
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