Another Detroit Rebirth
As I was born in Detroit (a 1957 model), I like keeping up with my birth city.
For four decades the magnificent Michigan Central Station sat empty and ruined; the poster child for all that was wrong with the city.
Then in 2018, Ford stunned everybody by announcing their purchase of the wholly derelict building and with plans to restore it.
And guess what happens soon?
SQUEE!!!!!!!!
The great hall, as with the entire building, was stripped and vandalized.
But Ford is to be commended for what looks like a extraordinary effort to Get Things Right. I am in awe.
Ross VERY happy!
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Oh WOW!! this is wonderful. I love old train stations. I used to take the Amtrak from Milwaukee to Missouri before I moved down here. I had a layover at Chicago Union Station, they have built a modern station around the old one, but I loved going in the Great Hall and just sitting and staring at the grandeur. Good for the Ford Co. I hope other companies will take the initiative and start restoring older buildings, it will be to their advantage.
Here in Tacoma, we restored our Union Pacific train station, and it is beautiful. Dale Chihuly, the blown glass artist, who is a Tacoma native, donated a lot of incredible sea form creations in glass for the arched windows and the ceiling of an outdoor walkway over the tracks. It’s mind blowing to experience, and too beautiful for just words.
Wonderful restoration.
I love old train stations. Many where beautiful buildings built during a time when aesthetics were as important as function. So sad so many are gone. Especially the ones in major cities. (I’m talking to YOU, New York.)
There was a move by the wife of our local school superintendent ( both Republicans) to destroy our downtown Santa Fe depot, demolish half of it and gut and “renovate” the other half for an art gallery. Private for profit of course. Thankfully that never happened, he got a job elsehwhere and they left. Good riddance.