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Ford to Convert Detroit Train Station
Ford Motor Co. has acquired an abandoned train station in Detroit, where it is creating an urban campus for its push into next-generation mobility products and services.
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Ford Motor Co. has acquired an abandoned train station in Detroit, where it is creating an urban campus for its push into next-generation mobility products and services.
The 18-story Michigan Central Depot opened in 1913 as the world’s tallest train station. In its heyday, the facility handled 200 trains per day. But the structure slowly slid into decay and was closed in 1988.
Ford intends to explain its plans for the depot on June 19. The carmaker acquired the structure from the Moroun family, which also owns the nearby Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ont. Last month Ford opened a refurbished factory near the depot and will use it to house its vehicle electrification and autonomy operations.
Reports of Ford’s interest in the building surfaced in March. But it wasn’t the first time. Historians not that Henry Ford planned in the 1920s to develop land near the building. But that project was abandoned when the Depression began in 1929.
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