Packard Motor Car Company (Right-click and choose "view image"
for larger version of panorama.) Many of Detroit's industrial
ruins relate to its days as the automotive manufacturing hub of
the nation. The Packard plant is the largest singular abandoned
industrial entity here. The Packard corporation left the site
about 1956 but the vast facility hosted many small businesses
through the 1990s, though fewer and fewer remained with each
passing year. In later years, paintball games and raves were
among the more prominent enterprises, legal or illegal, to
develop here. Ownership of the factory has been uncertain until
controversy erupted in 2010 when spray painted works by a
prominent artist named Banksy appeared, then disappeared, from
the Packard plant walls. A company claiming to be the legal
owner of the factory removed one of the pieces, yet the city tax
rolls for the last four years showed the city as the owner of
the land and that no private entity paid taxes. The buildings
have also been rented out for co