Civic leaders hailed the Ford Motor Co. in 2018 when it announced plans to renovate and re-occupy the old Michigan Central passenger train depot on the west side of Detroit.
During the previous decade, the station had become a famous urban ruin and a symbol of the City of Detroit’s precipitous economic decline from the glory years during and after World War II when the station’s grand waiting room with its tiled ceiling was the center countless arrivals and departures.