From decay to dazzling. Ford restores grandeur to former eyesore Detroit train station

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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 a hub for mobility projects in the rebirth of the Motor City.

San Antonio codes for recycling yards could soon be re-written, but some businesses wonder if it will make a differenceThe entrance to the Michigan Central Station is seen, Monday, May 13, 2024 in Detroit. A once hulking scavenger-ravaged monolith that symbolized Detroit's decline reopens this week after a massive six-year multimillion dollar renovation by Ford Motor Co., which restored the Michigan Central Station to its past grandeur with a focus squarely on the future of mobility.

The restoration effort — part of the automaker’s more than $900 million project to create a place where new transportation and mobility ideas are nurtured and developed — was just as massive as the size of the more than century-old, 500,000-square-foot building.__ More than 3,100 workers spent about 1.7 million hours of labor on the station and its surrounding public spaces__ 8.

“There's a lot of innovation going on here,” said Jim Farley, Ford chief executive."Very much the future of the company is going to be housed here and on the campus. It represents our future revenues." Michigan Central and several other efforts around Detroit are expected to accelerate southeastern Michigan’s innovation economy, said Baruah, who added that the building and the surrounding campus will help draw the best and most innovative minds to the area.The reopening of the train station also comes as Detroit apparently has turned the corner from national joke to national attraction.

 

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