We should all get together and buy the AMC Marquee from stalantis, im sure they want nothing to do with it.

I’m a big Ford guy and I love what you’re doing with that factory. Don’t let anyone destroy your dream

THANK YOU!!! As a fellow Michigan native, I was always saddened seeing these old historic factories being demolished. I always wished somebody would come and save these places.

I love that your main reason to not tear it down is just because its cool and you like it! Life is what you make it am I right?! And saving historic Detroit makes more sense to me than tearing it down just to save a buck. The story and history is worth more than that!

We need more people like you in this world Andy! Goodluck always!

@Andy Didorosi -- I just happened upon your short on this building purchase and had to check out the long version. I've been involved with historic preservation for 45 years and have been instrumental in saving at least a dozen building that had been slated for destruction. Your passion to save this historic building has caused me to "hit that subscribe button" and I'm looking forward to your continuing adventure.

I have a Toledo scale similar to that one. Mines over 100 years old. If you care about it don’t jump off of it so fast. It’s hard on them to have that needle and the guts slam back to hard. I had mine calibrated too it was $900 about 15 years ago. Also if you move it see if it has a lock mechanism and make sure it’s locked when moving it.

Thank you Andy. I respect and understand why you would want to save a piece of Detroit's history. With the demolition of the old Packard plant on the east side, Detroit is starting to lose the history of what it once was. I hope nothing but the best for you and your endeavors and maybe at some point, work together on your venture.

Man that place is amazing.. I would be like a kid at a carnival exploring that place.. Just love the history and so much old equipment in great shape still.. great acquisition!

Please make more videos. You're living my dream with this. I want to see more!

I'm a Saudi from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦🌴..I admire your Efforts..and money...to buy this property just to keep the History that's make me happy to find people like you....I do appreciate it 👍🏻💯😊 Hat off.....I wish you the best..keep up 👷🚧

love that you're against knocking down these kinds of buildings (considering the main structure is still sound) i dont see these kinds of buildings ever making a comeback, so it's nice to see some being preserved

Uploaded one year ago and it’s a most recent video? What happened to you?

This is so cool. I love old buildings being saved. Looking forward to more videos about these buildings. I'm thinking ideas, such as indoor flea market/antique mall, microbrewery.

He did it! Friends, I have been in that basement and a "little creepy" is an understatement.

Love your purpose reminds me of my husband before he passed. He could literally do anything he put his mind to. He could weld, fabricate, build and read blueprints. Could roof, build, wire and plumb an entire house. He actually redid our entire house in a week before we had our son. He built vehicles from the ground up, could see a part on a vehicle and tell you everything about it make, model, year, use, everything.... He was a true genius and an amazing man. I'm so in love with him even though he's gone.

A year and no new videos?

The printing stuff could be reused for old school car manufacturer brochures

Cool that you’ve kept the old machines.

Do this keep doing this I grew up in Kenosha Wisconsin American Motors manufacturer and there is nothing like what you're doing

I just came across your channel and was instantly hooked. Sad there wasn't a lot of recent videos or a lot of past but I watched it all. I hope you keep posting, I thoroughly enjoy content like this. Big buildings and cars/vehicles is my kind of content. Please keep posting and making long and short content.

This place would make an excellent automotive/industrial museum with all the old machinery in it and the feel of it.

You have our support Andy. See you at the car factory!

Good luck! This is great to see. One idea for the old machines is to clean them up and place them somewhere in the foyer with a description linking them to the history of the place.

You are doing great things for Detroit, Andy! Keep it up! 👍

Good luck, man. I can't wait to see what the future hold for this channel!

Definitely want to see more on this, I think it’d be cool to follow along the progress of you bringing it back. Hope you plan to make more videos on it!

Wowww you’re living my dream ‘job’, I just came across your channel and I must say please keep posting full length videos on the this whole process, I’m dying for an update!! Maybe videos on projects you’re currently working on, or roadblocks you encounter on a day To day basis, and maybe the business aspect of it, just anything really😂 Im here for it all cause you got something special going on and I can’t wait to see it all come together in this new building. Best of luck to you and your business!!

This building is kick ass. Love what you’re doing. To bad u didn’t still have the rail road still. My old boss, bought a building near 7mile/Mt.Elliot, the old Voss, steel. And just like yours, the railroad track came in the building and on his property. Conrail wanted him to pay monthly to keep it. He had no use for it. So he dug it up, cut it in sections with a torch. Sat on it, till scrap was high. He cashed in almost 100k. I’d love to help y’all out someday. I’m in the area 💪🏻

So cool. I love creepy old buildings filled with history. Can't tell you my favorite old truck since I know nothing about them, but will tell you my favorite old car instead - 67 e-type jaguar 😸

Really can’t wait to have another video touring what you have done so far! Shorts are nice but I know we all want a longer video update!!!

Love that you are saving history! Subscribed to see how this progresses over time. Thank you

Think it’s great that u saved it along with some of the classic equipment! 👍👍👍👍

Awesome video! Can't wait to see what you and your team do and support yall along the way!

This place is SO COOL! Love your vibe and perspectives. Please post some more videos

I work in an assembly plant for General Motors. It's sad to me to see things being updated and changed in our plant. I appreciate you saving these bits of factory history. We aren't allowed to take or buy any old machinery. Even old tools due to insurance reasons. Lots of these things go to scrap. Happy to see others who care about it!

Think your doing a great thing by keeping the existing buildings, looking forward too see what you do with the old place.

I love seeing old places brought back to life. That's a big project!

Best deal you ever made. You can do all kinds of things with it.

Seen a bunch of the shorts. Had to come see where it all started. This is so awesome

Awesome !! Man, I appreciate you saving this building. All the "old stuff" inside is not obsolete. It's better built, and better performing than anything modern. Also, there is a huge market for that kind of stuff.. Sell, don't scrap... Best of luck on your endeavors

Once you've completed more of the integral projects, it would be cooler to dedicate some of the extra space to a bit of a museum/information hub that gives some back story of the factory and the city, you could make it a sort of tourist attraction.

I subscribed and hit that bell just to follow this factory story. The fact you wanted to keep those 2 machines when they wanted to scrap it is amazing, and I hope you don't end up throwing them out because they take up too much space. I appreciate that you're *restoring* rather than *destroying* this factory, and thus, history

This is incredible, love the belief in the value of history. I can’t wait to see where this goes and grows! 👍🏼

I really hope you keep a lot of the historical stuff. It sounds like you are but a lot of those old machines have fewer then 5 left in the US. They are priceless. maybe you could turn one room into a bit of a museum.

I doubt Andy will see this but if you do I have a BUNCH OF OLD PHOTOS OF YOUR FACTORY WHEN IT WAS IN ITS HAY DAY! MY GREAT GRANDPA WORKED THERE AS A YOUNG MAN! I was watching this video while visiting my Great Grandpa and when he heard “old car factory” he turned to me & said “whatcha watching on your pocket tv there boy?” So I start the video over and as soon as he sees the building he says “hang on a second can we start over again? I gotta put my eyes on” So he puts his glasses on and says “I’ll be darned! I used to work there as a young man when I lived up in Detroit. In fact come upstairs with me I’ll grab my old photo album” we go to his office and he pulls out an old album filled with mostly old black & white photos but some color ones as well. As he proceeds to pull photo after photo of the inside and outside of this factory in its hay day. It had him and his fellow co workers with their old metal hardhats on, showed them outside on lunch at a table with their old steel lunch pails, old Stanley thermos’s filled with coffee, glass cola bottles, and all the old American cars that workers drove to work. He asked me if I knew the young man who made the video and I said no but I can leave a comment and see if he replies. He asked me to do it so here I am and he said tell him if he would like some old photos of his factory when it was running and producing we can get him some copies of these photos and we can send them up to Detroit for him and maybe he can blow them up and frame some up on the walls when he gets it back up and looking good again. So Andy if you see this please reply and I will be more than happy to make some copies of these and send them up to you. If you would like to speak to a man who used to work there way back then Great Grandpa said “I’ll do an interview for $500!” Lol but no he said he’d be more than happy if you had any questions or just wanted to know what was what.

no clue if anybody will see this comment but this series is amazing. i love historical buildings and you just showing all the history and fixing it up is amazing

More power to you, Andy, for preserving Detroit's industrial history.

Wow so many potentially cool photo spots. Like that alley, with correct lighting and a few extra certain objects could be turned into some very cool atmospheric place, almost like a dark theme park (reminds me a bit of a place in Tokyo that had old Hong Kong Kowloon Walled City theme park style), so nice!

Can not wait for this chapter to keep going want to see more . I hope this encourages the youth of Detroit come give a hand

You have a resource gem for making videos. Even just like this 5-10 min twice a month. It will add up.

New buildings ARE more practical, but the old ones got soul! 😎 Please do keep as much as you can, for the love of by gone days, for history and the memory that needs to be kept alive! 👍

I have a lot of respect for you saving that old factory

This is going to be sick

You should put a couple bowling lanes in the "alley." Look for a pair of Brunswick A2 pinsetters.

Supporting from the UK. Good luck mate!

This rules. My son and I are available to help at your behest. You're good for Detroit, Andy.

Looks neat, hope you turn that place into something cool!

As a Detroit Native I love seeing the explosion of small business, and some of these old buildings getting used! I just signed up to volunteer!

There is loads of value in saving history. Well done Sir!

I had the same idea of starting a automotive company. I work in the industry and I see so much wasted money. there are things that the big auto Maker could change that could make them more money. Just remember the KISS method and that will go a long way. Can't wait to see what ideas you have.

I studied architecture and im pretty sure we studied this building! I recognize the alleyway

Hell yea its nice seeing people putting those buildings to use again. Hope everything works out for u and our city💪

Awesome concept!!! With that attitude you will make it work and have fun doing it.

Hey look, you did a video!!! Haha.

quite curious as to how much it cost. good video, i like that you didnt string it out for 2 hours telling us stories about your pets and grandparents.

Keep posting ! Nicely done video! You Can definitely tell you put a good amount of work into it!

It's good to see someone actually want to keep an old building. Well done that man. 👍🏻

I can promise you that basement is even creepier in person. Plus its where the spiders live and they're as big as me.

Dammit, I had plans for that $10k

Those are Fantastic old buildings. Thank you for saving them. I wish someone would have bought the old Ford plant here in St Paul Minnesota but all the buildings have been demolished.

Congratulations! Love seeing this.

So… update?

He hasn't posted in 10 months as of writing this, hopefully he isn't bankrupt haha.. 😅 Edit: it would grow this channel alot if he made update videos on what's happening in the factory ngl I would watch that

This is so sick! Can’t wait to see more 🤔🤔

man i loooove all that paneling🥰 it's so retro!! i'm so glad you saved this place and i hope you keep it a bit vintage

why is the newest video 1 year old??

Great job saving it, historic & also saves the amount of embodied energy in the existing structure materials. Be safe & good luck.

Keep up the good works! I love to see American history ( Especially motor City history) preserved .

So cool! Let's see some more long form content, this is a great source of inspiration and creativity for many younger folks.

This is awesome hope to see more of it

I love projects like these, the only joy killer to it is money. So hope your pockets are deep and that you get to the end of finished project.

I like the simulator made out of the Subaru. Nice touch!

Man, I know the factory you bought. I love that you did it!! People love to bash on stuff like that, but no one remembers that, Detroit is the reason that the US economy did so well after WW2. Keep it up man!

You need more long form content on the factory

Looks like an exciting project full of history and potential. I could do with a press like that to force a flywheel off my 80 yo Lister CS's drive shaft.

I just decided that whatever it is you guys are making, I want one... I want to buy it and pick it up from the factory. This is really, really cool!

go-cart love? all that space? make a indoor go-cart test track!!!

This is so awesome. Looking forward to new videos

respect to you for saving history. not many people understand what this stuff means to certain people.

Fantastic good luck with your awesome project regards John UK

Just discovered your channel. Love the idea of rehabbing old factories for new industry. I live in Western NY and we have a lot of old and abandoned factories that could be repurposed. Considered doing it when looking for new shop space for my auto business. Currently in negotiations with starting my business at an old AMC/Jeep/Eagle dealer. Gained a subscriber my friend.

I’d love to see major work to this building

Dude!!! This is so exciting!! Stay tuned! 🥳🥳🥳

Dude this is EPIC! You just got a new subscriber with me. Look forward to seeing how this turns out.

Super cool reminds me of touring fisher body in Flint good luck brother!

We need more updates!! Haha hope your goin good and the reno is goin great!

Dudeeeee this is AWESOME! 🔥🤘🏼

Thats amazing! Bless you! I just found you from the Honda trucks import reel. In Fl, wish I was up there to help. The empty boxes were mailrooms likely

Just amazing if them old buildings could talk but they can't I love old buildings cars and the like , then the nostalgia that goes with it it's just fkn cool thanks for saving it dude 👍🏼