The Story Of Michigan's Almost Forgotten First Commercial Airport, Packard Field
When you drive down Gratiot Avenue in Roseville, there’s a monument just past Frazho road that would be very easy to miss. After all, it’s painted green – the same as the surrounding bushes. An important piece of Detroit area history was erased by a strip mall with the “greatest ratio” of parking to store area in the nation as a selling point in 1954. That historic place ties in not only aviation, but one of Detroit’s iconic and long gone manufacturers, Packard. That place is Michigan’s...