Ford renovates Michigan Central train station in Detroit
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- For decades a symbol of Detroit’s decline, the once-blighted, monolithic Michigan Central train station has new life following a massive renovation (AP video: Mike Householder and Carlos Osorio)
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Nice, imagine if it got trains again too
Well, Ford is talking to Amtrak and Detroit's transit authorities about resuming train service - in fact, they retain 4 of the ten station platforms that MCS used to have for rail use.
Grateful to Ford for stepping up to the plate with major funding. What a great way to give back to your community!
Which is ironic since they're reason the station fell into disrepair.
@@jbudlo2 exactly - amazing more people in the comments cant seem to grasp this, nor that Ford are doing this out of the goodness of their kind hearts lol
@@jbudlo2 When they have to power to close it down, they have the power to re-open it again... That's left for those within that company who has different opinions or objectives/goals, who has the will to do so.
Wow, that looks GREAT! I'd love to tour it! Hoping that's just one of the first steps to revitalizing Detroit, it deserves it with its rich history.
Not gonna happen unless they start mass producing cars again. Like China.
BEAUTIFUL.
So Proud of Ford Motor Company for making this possible.
So great to see this landmark restored to its original beauty and saved by Ford. It is one of the icons of Detroit and there is so much architectural history in the city that is worth preserving.
Way to go Ford! I'm rooting for Detroit
Lol if someone gave me $207 million dollars I’d fix up a building too
@@TheRealRobertG or just build a new one
@@punapeterLet's hope the same can be done to the abandoned Southwest Detroit Hospital.
@@mikemancini313Future home of the Detroit City FB club... A stadium will be built
@@Bedroomeyze lol root root, lol
Who knew a car company would help rebuild a train station? I guess that’s progress
But then, Ford needed office space, and building a new one is expensive AF, and so for the expense of a new office building, they restored and repurposed this old train station, and they got brownie points with the community. A win-win if you ask me.
Fantastic job Detroit!
Now if only they reintroduced passenger rail to that building too, but I know that is wishful thinking.
There's actually a tentative plan to bring in Amtrak
Kudos to Ford for doing this.
Lol kudos? They got 207 million dollars in tax breaks 😂 (they don’t need kudos)
@@TheRealRobertG tax write off
@@punapeter r u just repeating what I’m saying?
@TheRealRobertG It would have been easier to not do it all. They stepped up to save an iconic building. That's where you should give a tax break.
@TheRealRobertG It would have been easier to not do it all. They stepped up to save an iconic building. That's where you should give a tax break.
I'm glad someone cares about these beautiful old buildings and understands their importance in American history.
Spectacular... Along with the architecture Detroit should return all forms of rail transportation to the site as well... I..e. Streetcar/LRT, intercity, regional rail... Go Detroit!
Beautifully restored. I'm lucky enough to live in Los Angeles with it's Union Station that was also restored several years ago, but it hasn't stopped being a train station since it was built in the 30s. Union Station is busier than ever today with Amtrak, Metrolink, subway, light rail, and a bus plaza.
Absolutely right on. A friend of mine and I along with my grandson sometimes ride the Redlands Arrow and then the San Bernardino Metrolink to downtown. I hadn’t been to Olvera Street since I was a kid…and neither of them had ever been to Philippe’s for a sandwich!
But Ford hates all those things.
Beautiful! This is a great thing!
I went on the tour Friday afternoon. It was awesome. People and their Michigan Central Station stories 🎉 Explaining the restoration 🎉Baggage Room weaving the station into the story of Detroit 🎉 Scale model of the station in LEGOs 🎉
Wow, Great opportunities ahead for the City of Detroit!👏🏾
I have numerous fond memories of the train station. It was a treat for the eyes & would take numerous dates there for coffee & snacks. When I was drafted into the Army in 1966, everyone left from this station to Fort Knox, Campbell or Sill for basic training. I shocked my parents by kissing a gorgeous brunette goodbye "Sailor & Nurse style" from the WW2 Life magazine photo. What a thrill. I also left in this station on New Year's Day 1967 to report to Fort Carson Colorado due to overbooked flights out of Metro airport & saw parts of the country where there were no roads. Great memories.
From Toronto and I love visiting Detroit. Really rooting for them!
Thank you Ford! Detroit will rise again. Michigan is on a roll.
Lol, no it won't
@@mirzaahmed6589With comments like yours I always wonder: A troll? Or a special needs person?
Never been to Detroit but am thrilled to see it's comeback. Question, this was a train station? Does Detroit still have passenger train service?
Yes, it once was and, yes, there's an Amrac station in Detroit.
@@rodentcafeteria Thank you.
Amtrak's Chicago-Detroit line used this station from 1971 to the 1990s when the route was extended to Pontiac. From 1974 to 79 there was also a New York-Buffalo-Detroit train.
Detroit is amazing, people are so friendly there, too ❤
Bravo! So well done. I've never been to Michigan, but I'll visit just to take a tour of this place.
I hope they have a permanent tour and at least one restaurant for visitors to dine in and take the opportunity to relax and take it all in.
Well, Ford intends for MCS to have a hotel on the upper floors and retail space on the ground floor, aside from Ford offices and, if talks with Amtrak are successful, a return of rail service to MCS.
There is so much to do in Detroit, don't miss the DIA either, it's spectacular and the food and vibe is incredible in Detroit!
I love this revival! It's similar to how they renovated Penn Station in New York to be more reminiscent of the original station. Gorgeous!
I may not like Ford but props to them for restoring this landmark.
Credit where credit is due, very nice job Ford!
Most land mines are pretty breathtaking imo
what?
They should restore their old office building too. That was an interesting tour
great place
This is amazing
Amazing!!❤
The fact that one of the biggest auto corporations in the world is showing so much respect for a historic train stations than what NYC ever did is honestly so tragic. We need to respect our history so much more. We keep looking down upon our ancestors like they're cavemen, and it's robbing us of our heritage and sense of identity.
America should develop its train transportation network. Look at Europe or other countries, most of them have developed train network which is very convenient for people.
Wow what a great job Ford! It's almost like taxes should be used for the conservation of important local history! I love my F150!!!
Wasn’t that in the beginning of 8 Mile?
Interesting Ford's CEO mentions the architects were the same as for Grand Central--without mentioning Grand Central's location because everyone knows it's in New York City. If you look at the station part of the building, it looks somewhat similar. As for the office tower, it was never occupied because of its poor location relative to downtown Detroit. The complex was something a failure at its opening.
Actually, MCS is what Grand Central should have been - a train station with an office tower. Had that tower at Grand Central been built, it presumably would have been the HQ of New York Central, but it didn't happened.
@@kristoffermangila Grand Central Terminal DID have an office building, actually several, as part of what was called Terminal City and the New York Central Railroad had its headquarters in a magnificent tower overlooking the station seen from upper and lower Park Avenue in one of America's greatest Beaux Arts street perspectives. Sadly, views to the tower were obscured by the construction of the Pan Am Building (now Metropolitan Life) in the 1960s.
Search it. It's a beauty.
Congratulations Ford.
See if Amtrak moves there again.
Rumour is Ford is talking to Amtrak about that.
Now they just have to bring Buffalo Central Station back to life.
Now are there gonna be actual trains going there again?
Naaaa, Ford is not going to help make people less dependent on cars
No it's an innovative office for Ford and other companies are moving in, a hotel will occupy a few of the top floors and they're bringing in shops/restaurants on the first floor supposed to open around September!
How ironic that Ford Motor Co. restored a passenger rail station. The very same building that became dilapidated due Ford's direct contribution to America's car centric society. If Detroit had a functioning passenger rail system today I doubt Ford would be so charitable.
Excellent point. Up until about the 1910s it appeared railroads would be the way we all travel medium and longer distances. But America started dumping money into highways and that was the end of profitable passenger rail service in North America.
Oddly enough, railroads did the same thing to canals in the United States. There was a time when river boats looked like the odds-on favourite for getting around the US.
Hey Jim, can you just bring the new Taurus to the US already?
Now all they need to do is move the Amtrak station back there and bring back through-service to Canada and New York
Why didn't they save thr YMCA TOO?
Now fix the Ford Bronco.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Please bring trains back. What's the point of a train station without trains??
Worth saving an American landmark.
It was an iconic land mine, all right. It’s takes wealthy corporate dollars to maintain this stuff. I hope ford continues to preserve it.
In other news, GM is likely going to demolish the RenCen.
Non Ford users like Hyundai?
*Grand Central Terminal ❤
Should of never been abandoned. Where in Europe they save things historical the USA justw leaves it to rot🤔🤔🤔
Nice job, how much did the restoration cost? Too bad it's wasted in Detroit. One building won't renovate a city.
But hundreds? Which there are! The city has actually started adding people for the first time in decades so it looks like despite haters like you Detroit is on its way back! Unlike you!
Yes, we (the states) had begun questioning how the federal government counts the population. It seems like they have an outdated method? Anyhow, the 'Rust Belt' is turning the corner on pupolstion loss and toward growth. Thousands of little projects add up!
I attended a conference in 2003 Detroit and saw this behemoth to my right. I asked the locals about it. They spoke with pride and melancholy at the station's past and then derelict present.@stickynorth
That’s a train station if they get that thing up and running it will move the city economically and add to the GDP! Similar to Union Station in my hometown of Washington, D.C.
@@officialalonzo263 It WAS a train station. I believe the renovation/restoration removed removed the platforms behind it? Something similar happened to Cincinnati's Union Terminal.
@@officialalonzo263 "IF they get that thing..." huh? LOL Right because the train is so happening in the U$ and EVERYONE wants to go to Detroit??
Why?
Why waste the money? There isn't any train that stops there? Why fix failed Democrat policy? How about ford restore there car plants bring factory's back from Mexico?😅
LOL, you must really think this wasn't done as a way to make money. You really don't have an understanding of how corporations work huh?
there car plants........ imoji
Don't you think fixing the building the first step towards train service, BUD the CHUD?
Detroit back on track since Dems took over the state. Restored personal liberty that Michigan MAGA tried to take away.
How about you go back to school and learn how to write? Looks like republicans home-schooled you.
Henry Ford would be DISGUSTED that they defaced the capitals on the columns and put the STAR OF DAVID on them. I am DISGUSTED by that.
Those six-pointed flowers at the capital of the columns are original to the 1913 building when constructed. The pedals fell off over the years through disrepair, but were restored to their former look through this renovation. Why you see the Star of David instead of the flowers that they are is beyond me...
Henry ford was an anti-Semite.
And apparently so are you.
Hate much ?
@@3markaw Hate, much!
Yes ...hate the haters ! Glad you are so clear on what you are.