Michigan Central Station is set to open for the first time in decades following Ford Motor Company’s six-year, $950 million project to transform the former train depot into a center for advanced technology.
The Michigan Central train station has been empty since 1988, and Ford’s preservation project began after it acquired the abandoned train station in 2018 to be the centerpiece of Michigan Central, a 30-acre technology and cultural hub in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood.
Michigan Central will serve as an innovation center for Ford employees together, external partners, entrepreneurs, and students to co-create new products, services, and technologies. More than 1.7 million hours have been spent preserving and retrofitting The Station with modern technology and infrastructure.
“This Station was our Ellis Island – a place where dreamers in search of new jobs and new opportunities first set foot in Detroit,” said Bill Ford, executive chair of Ford. “Over the past six years, Ford Motor Company and teams of forward thinkers, designers, community leaders, and more than 3,000 skilled tradespeople have worked to bring this landmark back to life.”
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