Famous people's places / Detroit – North End / Milwaukee Junction
Fisher Body Plant 21
Closed – archive entry · 1984
A million-square-foot Fisher Body auto plant built in 1919 near the Ford Piquette plant, empty since 1993, now being turned into hundreds of apartments and shops.
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Charles T. Fisher's family firm put up this six-story plant in 1919, a block from where Henry Ford had built the Model T just over a decade earlier. Fisher Body Plant 21 stamped and welded car bodies, mostly for Cadillac and Buick, and General Motors kept running it after buying out the Fisher brothers. Production stopped in 1984 and the huge brick building sat empty from 1993 onward, its broken windows and graffiti turning it into one of Detroit's best-known ruins and a magnet for photographers exploring the abandoned city. That changed in the 2020s: a Detroit-based development group began a $134 million rehab, keeping the historic shell and filling it with roughly 435 apartments and street-level shops, with work still underway.
- Built in 1919 by Charles T. Fisher's Fisher Body company
- Made car bodies for Cadillac and Buick until 1984
- Empty and abandoned from 1993 into the 2020s
- Being converted into about 435 apartments
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- Charles T. Fisher 1880–1963 · co-founder of Fisher Body, industrialist and banker
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A Fisher Body plant near the Ford Piquette plant, long abandoned after closing; later taken up for redevelopment.
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