Well on the plus side when it's renovated everyone will be able to go in as they please.
Well on the plus side when it's renovated everyone will be able to go in as they please.
The restoration of this beautiful babe can only be a good thing. I can't see a negative side to it. It could even revitalize the surrounding neighborhood; and I'm all about the neighborhoods.
What does it mean to be on the waiting list? Will there be a later date to visit the station?
I grabbed some photos during my visit to the station yesterday. I will try to post more this week. https://fadeddetroit.blogspot.com/20...n-station.html
Executive Plaza is now the largest office building between Ford Corktown and the CBD that has yet to be rehabbed
http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/1200-...it-MI/3796772/
Big news on Michigan Central and the surrounding area.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/bu...ion/994474002/
Highlights:
$740 million investment
1.2 million square-foot campus
seeking $250 million in tax incentives
Occupy MCS by 2022
That price tag must piss off the 1000 or so people they are going to walk out of Ford PDC in Dearborn in a few weeks due to the stock price and Jim Hackett's focus on the company's "fitness". I get that they want to make it a leaner company, but cutting all these people as a cost saving measure and then spending almost a billion dollars on a building isn't exactly the best PR move.
Fortunately for Ford, most people outside of Metro Detroit won't know anything about this. I didn't even know Ford was cutting staff so drastically.
Over the last few decades Ford has been ahead of the game even when they looked as though they were behind. Their stock started dropping well before the Great Recession, yet they were the only automaker not asking for a bailout. This move certainly won't help them or their share price in the short term, but Ford has the long run on their minds. For the foreseeable future cities are where young people want to be, and it's young talent and ideas that will keep these automakers afloat in the decades to come.
https://ljpr.com/2018-ford-phased-re...t-program-prp/
https://www.freep.com/story/money/pe...uts/396035001/
They are. Remember when they quietly announced they were going to try to reduce their headcount about a year or so ago by offering buyouts? Word is not too many people took those buyouts. So what was initially a phased retirement program for those who volunteered and took the buyout will now turn into layoffs. They're going to be dumping about 1000 people from PDC in Dearborn.
So much for the Moroun's Hollywood stage front el cheapo windows...
Say goodbye to Michigan Central Station's replacement windows
Michigan Central Station once again needs new windows.
Less than three years after the Moroun family installed more than 1,000 of them at the vacant depot in Corktown [[with some less-than-gentle nudging from the Duggan administration), Ford Motor Co. will rip out what a spokeswoman said yesterday were windows that "are not historically correct for our planned restoration."
That probably comes as no surprise to experts on things like this.
Read this Metro Times piece from August 2015, which goes into great detail about the windows' historical shortcomings. And here is John Gallagher's Detroit Free Press story from the day before.
From Crains: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/voices-...cement-windows
It’s always sounded like Ford wanted to do this project the right way so this really doesn’t come as a surprise.
I wonder what’s going to happen to all those windows once they’re removed, though. Would be nice to see them donated to Habitat for Humanity or something.
Those windows are huge. Far too big to fit in a standard house.
If the glass isn't tempered it could be cut and re-used. However, labor costs usually make such projects impractical.