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Old Posted Jun 12, 2018, 2:45 PM
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What's next, now that Ford owns the long-abandoned Michigan Central Station?
JC REINDL, PHOEBE WALL HOWARD | DETROIT FREE PRESS
6:24 p.m. CDT June 11, 2018


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Ford's plans for the old Michigan Central Station, a towering ruin that blighted Detroit's skyline for two decades and came to symbolize the city's dramatic fall, will be announced next week.

The automaker is expected to renovate the long-vacant train depot and make it the hub of a campus for advanced automotive technology in the Corktown neighborhood.

The sale was announced Monday by Matthew Moroun, whose family enterprise has owned the empty station near Michigan Avenue since 1995. He spoke in front of the once-elegant structure, now a mottled gray facade surrounded by razor wire and a chain-link fence.

The Ford sale also included a nearby former Detroit Schools book depository that the family owns. Moroun declined to disclose the total sale price.
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