Quote Originally Posted by Gsgeorge View Post
In the same sense, only the feds really do have the money to restore a building such as, say, the train station. So a government tenant, as boring as that seems, may be the only hope for those types of buildings. I wouldn't mind seeing a government department at Michigan Central [[it would be foolish to reject any offer to renovate the MCS) but at the same time I would feel a bit disappointed it was not a more public use.
Detroit doesn't have a Robert Byrd in the Senate. He forced a lot of federal offices to move from the DC area to West Virginia.

Michigan senators never had that kind of clout and Michigan senators haven't focused so much on Detroit.