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[KevinKorell]

WJBK-TV, Fox-2 in Detroit, MI, 8/24/21:

 

 

    Final phase of Michigan Central Station restoration underway 3 years after Ford purchased Detroit depot    

 

 

In June 2018, Ford Motor Co. announced that it was the new owner of Michigan Central Station.

 

The building had been vacant for 30 years when Ford shared the news and immediately got to work restoring the historic Detroit train depot.

 

 

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[CNJRoss]

Hour Detroit, 10/12/22 (dated post)

 

The Grand Reopening of Michigan Central Station

 

The long-awaited opening of the reimagined Michigan Central Station and The Book Depository is upon us.

 

The neglected area surrounding Michigan Central Station is starting to take shape as a new global innovation hub. // Rendering courtesy of Michigan Central, LLC.

 

In the mid-1930s, when the Albert Kahn-designed U.S. Parcel Post Office opened next to the august, celebrated Michigan Central Station, there was precious little public fanfare. It was, essentially, a really big warehouse, and at the time it was so common for Kahn’s firm to have a hand in new Detroit-area structures that only a few of their openings were cause for much excitement.

 

Although the Detroit Free Press wrote in 1934 about the expected start of construction and then-Rep. John Dingell Sr.’s work securing the $1.9 million to pay for it, the paper offered no coverage of its 1936 completion. 

 

That won’t be the case in coming months when that building reopens. It is the first major payoff of Ford Motor Company’s ambitious $950 million investment into the transformation of the long-decaying area. The entire project is branded Michigan Central; it is a gleaming new hub of innovation focused on mobility technology.

 

The showstopper of that massive effort is, of course, the renewal of the Michigan Central train station as a space for offices, shopping, and public gatherings, which is due to be opened to the public by the end of 2023.

 

 

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[KevinKorell]

Column in Detroit, MI Free Press, 4/17/24:

 

 

  Bill Ford: Michigan Central Station must be more than just a restoration    

 

 

In about 2005, Bill Ford determined that the future wasn’t being invented in Detroit.

 

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[KevinKorell]

Detroit, MI Free Press,  4/24/24:

 

 

   Michigan Central Station hiring 60 ambassadors for opening weekend, summer    

 

 

Michigan Central Station is hiring up to 60 welcome ambassadors to help host the crowds for the station's reopening June 6 and throughout the summer.

 

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[KevinKorell]

Detroit, MI Free Press, 4/30/24:

 

 

  Concert to lead 'global celebration for Detroit' at Michigan Central reopening June 6      

 

 

In what it’s calling a “global celebration for Detroit and Detroiters,” Ford Motor Company will host a June 6 concert to kick off the grand opening of the resurrected Michigan Central Station.

 

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