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The once-blighted monolithic Michigan Central train station — for decades a symbol of Detroit’s decline — has new life following a massive six-year, multimillion-dollar renovation to create ...
The Michigan Central Open experience at the train station, located at 2001 15th St. in Detroit, is just getting started and will chug along through the summer, offering plenty of chances to ...
DETROIT — Ford’s latest project out of the Motor City is the restoration and reopening of an abandoned train station, ... a century-old Detroit train station restored for $950 million.
The reopening of the train station also comes as Detroit apparently has turned the corner from national joke to national attraction. Nearly a decade from exiting its embarrassing bankruptcy, the motor city has stabilized its finances, improved city services, staunched the population losses that saw more than a million people leave since the ...
Michigan Central Station (MCS, also known as Michigan Central Depot) is the historic former main intercity passenger rail station in Detroit, Michigan.Built for the Michigan Central Railroad, it replaced the original depot in downtown Detroit, which had been shuttered after a major fire on December 26, 1913, forcing the still unfinished station into early service.
The old train station, which will include 640,000 square feet of retail, hospitality, community and office spaces, serves as the centerpiece of Ford's mobility district in the area.
When Bill Ford announced the purchase of Michigan Central Station in 2018, he publicly promised residents of Corktown that Ford Motor Co. wouldn't be launching a corporate takeover of Detroit's ...
The station was established in 1978 with the goal of Detroit's western suburban residents' access to passenger trains. [4] A station with a temporary structure opened July 30, 1978. A permanent station building opened on October 1, 1979, replacing the temporary structure. The station was built on property deeded to the city by the Ford Motor ...