Michigan Central Depot ideas

[E hemingway]

It seems like the answer to every blighted building in Detroit is either tear it down or completely rehab it. It appears that a complete rehab of the Michigan Central Depot is not likely in this economy and in this city, but sudden demolition is not the answer either. This thread is all about the third, fourth and fifth options.

What are your ideas for the Michigan Central Depot? Feel free to post any out-of-the-box, off-the-wall idea that comes to mind. Yeah, these will probably be just pie-in-the-sky thoughts, but we as a community should be putting a lot more thought into what we can do with something as big as Michigan Central Depot before we demolish it.

My idea, turn it into a ruin park like Lowell originally suggested the city do with all of its abandoned skyscrapers. Secure the building enough so people can walk in certain places of it, even let them go all the way to the roof and take in the views. It's already a tourist attraction, why not capitalize on it. Let Metro Parks run it since there isn't a Metro Park in the city and we pay for parks that are mostly in the exurbs. Let artists put temporary works of art on it as way of beautifying it and making it something we can be proud of at least some of the time.

That's my crazy idea. What's yours?