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Posted on 05/27/2018 6:39:01 PM PDT by shove_it
The 105-year-old building that once handled all of Detroit's passenger rail traffic closed in 1988 due to a decline in ridership and took on a new life in the subsequent years as a must-see destination for urban explorers, the homeless and scavengers, who picked it clean of anything valuable.
After years of failed short-lived plans to repurpose the dated 500,000-square-foot, 18-story building, its future may be crystalizing: The Ford Motor Co. is moving into the surrounding neighborhood of Corktown and — according to Ford board member Edsel B. Ford II — is in talks to buy the old station...
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Manny Maroun has done wonders with the place.
The Sam Bernstein law firm, “Michigan’s First Family of Law”, hasn’t lifted a finger to revive Detroit.
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I hope so. It’s criminal what they’ve allowed to happen to that beautiful gem.
How nice, another deadbeat drug Haven hangout.
Ford? So they can plan on making pick ups and one sedan model?
Thanks, I like the construction pics.
I’m having a hard time picturing why one would want an 18-story train station...
Oh for business. I thought maybe people wanted to leave faster.
Great pics knarf...
Thousands of young men newly enlisted into the Army, Marines etc. left their homes & family here in Michigan and got on the trains at Michigan Central Station to never return from WW1/WW2.
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Detroit bottomed out a few years ago. It will never be what it was at its peak, but it has the potential to be a successful regional city. I’d bet on Detroit over Chicago at this point.
(1-8-7 isn't even a code used by the Detroit homicide squad, but I guess it sounded good).
That looks like a man outside the car, baby.
So your saying she’s smokin’ hot, she’s like at least a 9 and she’s chill, she’s totally cool, she’s like not even a 3 crazy.
You should be careful, that’s a dude, your talkin’ to a tranny.
Why would a train station be 18 stories tall?
Some used to have hotels built over them.
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I wonder myself. Can’t imagine. Unless it’s indoor temperature and humidity are self-regulating?
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