Extensive BBC Website Feature On Michigan Central And Detroit
BBC ran or published the attached story - a rather favorable one about redevelopment efforts in the city that was, for a quarter century, part of the British empire. Does the renovation of the Michigan Central station have important symbolic meaning?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/Knx...entral_detroit
BBC Website Feature on Michigan Central
BBC’s Jonathan Marcus has authored a major website feature on the Ford Michigan Central Depot that weaves the station’s history, decline, restoration, neighborhood implications and impending future with an extensive collection of historic and current images.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/Knx...entral_detroit
It is chock full of interviews with Bill Ford, Councilperson Castenada-Lopez, local historians and neighborhood activists.
DetroitYES participation includes quotes from Ray1936, yours truly, and the feature’s contemporary photos were shot by Southen.
[Oops renf beat me to posting this—threads merged.]