Wayne County also had discussions about moving offices to train station
Maybe this brings Wayne County back in the tenant mix? From Crains:
Before Ford Motor Co.
emerged yesterday as the leading suitor for the long-vacant Michigan Central Station, Wayne County had months of discussions last year with its owner on a large lease to move at least 500 county employees there from the Guardian Building downtown.
Khalil Rahal, the county's economic development director and assistant county executive, said in an interview with Crain's Tuesday that the county had explored for six to eight months moving employees into the 500,000-square-foot former train station building at 2001 15th St. in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood.
The county scrapped the idea around late October because it would have paid more in the train depot than it's currently paying in Guardian Building at 500 Griswold St. But the discussions are another sign that the train station, a physical symbol of Detroit's decline, is drawing serious interest in reviving it.
To make the deal work, the county would have sold the Guardian; the county has said it will not sell the building for less than it takes to retire the bonds issued to finance improvements to it made during the administration of former County Executive Robert Ficano.
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