Crain's Detroit Business, 9/13/17:
Detroit train station gets a homecoming
400 former Detroiters, local civic leaders kick off program inside historic depot
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But the main attraction was the hulking train station — long a symbol of Detroit's decline and now the subject of renewed interest for redevelopment amid the city's downtown and Midtown revitalization.
Matthew Moroun, son of depot owner Manuel "Matty" Moroun, addressed the criticism his 90-year-old father has received over the years for not redeveloping the train station, which ceased operation in 1988.
"Despite the enormous and positive feelings this evening, it has not always been good to own the depot," said Matthew Moroun, vice chairman of Central Transport, the Moroun family's trucking and logistics business. "We've taken many broadsides about its condition, our plans for it and our refusal to demolish it."
Moroun noted that in 2009, Detroit City Council passed a resolution calling for the demolition of the building, which includes a 110,000-square-foot concourse with Roman pillars and a 13-story office tower.
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