Talk about redeveloping the long-vacant Michigan Central Station in Detroit's Corktown area heated up again Thursday during an announcement about this year's Detroit Homecoming, which will hold the first significant private event in the 104-year-old train station since the mid-1980s. [...]
"(Redevelopment of) the depot is going to take a marathon, but we're not at the beginning of the race, we're a few miles into it," said Matthew Moroun, whose father, Matty, bought the building in 1995.
— crainsdetroit.com
"I said, 'there's one thing: Every time I read a damn national story about Detroit, there's a picture of the train station with the holes in the windows as the international image of the city's decline,'" Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is quoted saying, recalling his conversation with billionaire businessman — and the building's owner — Matthew Moroun. "I said, 'I want you to put windows in the train station. And if you do that, everything else will be just fine.'"
Renovation costs for the 104-year-old train station — once the tallest rail station in the world and the city's pride but sitting vacant and in an increasingly derelict state since Amtrak service ceased in 1988 — are estimated to exceed $100 million.
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How about a light rail line connecting the Station with downtown Detroit? Additionally, build LRT lines radiating from the Station to the various planned community developments.
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