Mayor Duggan and Mayor-elect Sheffield announce the project.

The Packard Plant on Detroit's east side, which went from being a massive car plant that employed tens of thousands of workers to a symbol of the city's decay, is headed for a major uplift -- and a new chapter in the city.

City officials, including Mayor Mike Duggan and Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield, on Monday announced at a press conference a 28-acre redevelopment of the southern half of the former plant that includes:

42 “make/live” affordable housing units

Detroit’s first indoor skate park

MODEM – the Museum of Detroit Electronic Music

Creative community programming areas

More than two acres of indoor/outdoor public space and recreation areas

A nearly 400,000-square-foot new building that would house manufacturing, bringi

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