{"id":3528,"date":"2013-12-18T22:21:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T22:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnreview.barnesandnoble.com\/t5\/In-the-Margin\/A-Peruvian-Investor-Walks-into-a-Packard-Plant-A-Guest-Post-by\/ba-p\/11991"},"modified":"2013-12-18T22:21:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T22:21:35","slug":"a-peruvian-investor-walks-into-a-packard-plant-a-guest-post-by-mark-binelli-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/18\/a-peruvian-investor-walks-into-a-packard-plant-a-guest-post-by-mark-binelli-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Peruvian Investor Walks into a Packard Plant: A Guest Post by Mark Binelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Peruvian investor recently purchased the Packard Plant, the iconic Detroit ruin, closed since the nineteen-fifties and sprawling over 40 acres. Fernando Palazuelo, the proud new owner, forked over $400,000 for the factory, which he described to <em>Bloomberg News <\/em>as &#8216;the best opportunity in the world.&#8217; He plans to live on the premises, with the future rehab transforming the mouldering site, in the words of the article, into &#8216;a vibrant hub of automotive suppliers, offices, shops, lofts and maybe even a go-kart track&#8230;'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Peruvian investor recently purchased the Packard Plant, the iconic Detroit ruin, closed since the nineteen-fifties and sprawling over 40 acres. Fernando Palazuelo, the proud new owner, forked over $400,000 for the factory, which he described to Bloo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-contributed-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}