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Deal may lead to repairs at Michigan Central Station
It is going to take a lot more than new windows to fix that place up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KFfY71jMpw
Let it go, put the money where it can be used.
I am looking forward to a renovated and rejuvenated Michigan Central Terminal along with the preservation of the magnificent aesthetics embodied in the original architectural designs. I hope that Amtrak service to Chicago and Pontiac will follow shortly thereafter.
Just the latest in a long line of proposals. Remember the police HQ proposal? It went nowhere just like the rest of the proposals. He is just trying to buy his way to keep a monopoly on the bridge traffic.
Politcal smoke and mirrors. Please, no one hold your breath for any of this.
The Morouns can probably thank the vandals for doing some of the demolition work for them removing some of the old fixtures so a more modern new climate-controlled, energy efficient system could be installed. Maybe solar panels and/or wind machines on the roof?
Being close to Ambassador bridge, this building would also be a great place to hold offices for customs brokerage, trucking company offices, offices and detention center for customs, homeland security, and law enforcementas well as railroad offices. Perhaps passenger service could return. There is plenty of vacant land between the building and the bridge a full-service truck stop with plenty of parking in a secured off area which is sorely needed in the Motor City, and most importantly, creating thousands of new jobs!
The state just spent hundreds of millions to connect I-96 with the Ambassador Bridge to make interchangeability to Canada easier. The Mourons’ project to build a second bridge should go ahead as planned to ease congestion on the exisiting span. When the new span opens, the older span could either undergo a major facelift, or be torn down to build a replacemnet in time to meet the growing traffic demands across the bridge.
The downriver bridge proposal should be scrapped, it is further away from all of the main highways serving Detroit, and it is also on a sensitive piece of land that is prone to sinkholes. I’m really surprised political conservatives are not embracing Moroun’s proposal as this is done by a private sector interest.The downriver proposal is a project to benift toll road hogs in Indiana and Ohio. That bridge money would be better off being directed to rebuild I-94 and for Michigan’s proposed rail service expansions, keeping an investments in Michigan instead of to an overeas troll.
“The city would also transfer three acres of a park to the bridge company to make room for the second span.” Which park?