Re: Packard Factory to finally come down?

Posted by RogerDetroit On 2012/3/2 10:54:44

I don't mean to be on a rant here, but many of the historical artifacts have been sold off by the owners or his partners.

One of the two sets of doors was bid up at auction to $160,000 to a private collector from Texas who made his millions as a personal injury attorney so money was NOT an object with him. He then went on to buy as much of the sandstone/limestone artifacts as he could - including the radiator shells mounted on the bridge over East Grand Blvd.

He set a high bar on the prices for the artifacts and that made it only that much more difficult for the PMCF to cut a deal for the second set of doors. That second set of doors now reside at the PPG. If you want to save artifacts, then it takes money - bottomline.

Rant over.

--Roger--