Inside Packard Plant

Detroit, Michigan

By Wander with Jill

June 1^st, 2015

I was one of the few people still roaming Detroit after enjoying a crazy weekend at Movement Electronic Music Festival. A good friend of mine called me and told me he was going to check out Packard Plant. I had no idea what he was even talking about, but being the natural explorer that I am I decided to check it out. Here are some photos that I captured while exploring this abandoned space.

some history

The Packard automotive plant is the first concrete building designed by architect Albert Kahn in 1907. This Plant is a former automobile-manufacturing factory in Detroit, Michigan where luxury Packard cars were made by the Packard Motor Car Company and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation. Since its abandonment, the plant has been said to be a haven for graffiti vandals, urban explorers, paintballers and auto scrappers. It was also home to more then a few legendary raves, but perhaps none more important than Richie Hawtin‘s Spastik events, which were some of the first public parties of the early underground Detroit scene.