Thank the lord!
For all the talk of struggling auto companies, it's easy to forget just how behemoth they still are. This is part of Ford's play to attract Millennial and, yes, Gen Z workers to Detroit... they are planning to bring up the whole Corktown neighborhood. They will renovate the train station as an anchor for a revitalized neighborhood, probably with Ford's own creative and technology-oriented offices on the upper floors and retail, maybe a food hall, on the ground floor. Corktown is very intact by Detroit standards and already has a critical mass of trendy businesses, but it does also have plenty of room to grow and definitely a handful of sites for large apartment buildings including a proposal for the old Tiger Stadium site.
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la forme d'une ville change plus vite, hélas! que le coeur d'un mortel...
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