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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 30 April 2015 - 11:07 AM

Detroit, MI Free Press, 4/29/15:

 


Riverside Park, depot to get face-lifts in land swap

 

The city of Detroit on Wednesday announced a deal with the Moroun family to improve a riverfront public park while aiding the Ambassador Bridge owner's quest for a second span to Canada.

 

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Posted 06 May 2015 - 10:24 AM


Michigan Central Train Depot owners respond to doubt over agreement to install windows

DETROIT, MI -- The owners of the Michigan Central Train Depot released a letter Tuesday from a manufacturer promising delivery of windows for the massive blighted building by June.[/size]
The letter was released in response to a Detroit News column that implicitly called into question a commitment announced last week to have all the windows installed in the Corktown behemoth of blight by the end of the year.

http://www.mlive.com...in_depot_o.html
 
Hopefully, there'll be sufficient security to thwart vandal attacks on the new windows. :unsure:
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Posted 12 August 2015 - 12:05 PM

Detroit, MI Free Press, 8/12/15:

 


Windows going up at Detroit train station

 

Windows are going in at a long-shuttered train depot that for nearly two decades has been one of Detroit's best-known eyesores.

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Posted 20 August 2015 - 01:30 PM

Detroit Free Press, 8/20:
 

 

Are new train station windows historically accurate?

 

To the delight of many, the Moroun family has been installing windows in the long-abandoned Michigan Central Station.

 

But some fans of historic architecture say the replacements are not historically accurate -- metal when they should be wood and unable to be opened like the originals.

 

To some eyes the new windows look too modern for a train station designed in the classical mode and that opened in 1913.

 

Not everyone notices or cares. But to preservationists, it's a big deal.

 

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Posted 06 February 2016 - 09:47 AM

mlive.com , 2/4/16:

Windows at Michigan Central Station completed on time and budget


It's far from renovated, but Michigan Central Station in Detroit certainly received a facelift.

A spokeswoman for the Detroit International Bridge Company, owned by the Moroun family, said all the windows in the train station have been replaced.


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Posted 12 September 2017 - 09:02 AM

Crain's Detroit Business, 9/11/17:
 

Moroun's vision for Detroit depot? Trains

 

 

From mini-mall to car museum, Matthew Moroun has heard every idea imaginable for what to do with the expansive concourse of the long-vacant Michigan Central Station train depot in Detroit.

 

But he’s starting to settle on an ambitious, if not audacious, concept that he calls “the oldest idea for the depot.”

 

Trains.

 

Like the kind that carried passengers to and from the Detroit train station for nearly 75 years before Amtrak ceased service in 1988 and the abandoned depot began a long decline that mirrored the city’s descent.

 

“It’s crazy, right?” Moroun said in an exclusive interview with Crain’s. “The idea that we’re most focused on now, the one that seems to make sense, is in the name of the building and it’s what it used to be used for.”

 

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Posted 16 September 2017 - 08:14 PM

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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Posted 20 March 2018 - 08:56 AM

 

 

Ford looks at buying Detroit's long-vacant Michigan Central Station

 

Ford is interested in further expanding in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood, including into the long-vacant Michigan Central Station, after 30 years of vacancy.

https://www.freep.co...epot/439108002/



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Posted 07 May 2018 - 11:50 PM

MSN, 5/7/18:

 


 

Ford’s board could vote Thursday on buying Detroit's train depot

 

 

Ford's interest in acquiring a massive abandoned and blighted train station in Detroit for office space is a huge story around town and also one of its worst-kept secrets, with the automaker reportedly lining up dozens of properties in the surrounding Corktown neighborhood and business district as part of plans to build a new urban campus.

 

 

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Posted 27 May 2018 - 12:32 PM

MSN, 5/27/28:

 


 

Vacant for decades, Detroit's train station may get new life

 

The last train left Michigan Central Station 30 years ago and it has stood vacant ever since, a hulking embodiment of Detroit's long decline from America's manufacturing engine to its biggest municipal bankruptcy.

 

 

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