The building is of the Beaux-Arts Classical style of architecture, designed by the Warren & Wetmore and Reed and Stem firms who also designed New York City's Grand Central Terminal. The price tag for this 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m2) building was $15 million when it was built. Roosevelt Park creates a grand entryway for the station, which was fully realized around 1920. (Photo by HB Meeks/Tell Us Detroit)

   
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New windows are shown on the twelfth floor in the train depot in Detroit on Thursday, August 13, 2015. (Photo by HB Meeks/Tell Us Detroit)

 


New windows are being installed at Michigan Central Station in Detroit as part of preservation project

By Wendell Bryant/Tell Us Detroit

DETROIT (Tell Us Det) - Windows are being installed at the long-time abandoned train depot that for nearly twenty years has been one of Detroit's best-known symbols of its decades of urban blight.

Strip miners have removed anything of value over the years along with vandals and graffiti painters have broken every window and defaced every wall inside.

But now, the Detroit International Bridge Company has embarked upon an aggressive drive to preserve the historic Michigan Central Train Station which has stood since 1913.

To view progress, the media was invited Thursday morning on a rare tour inside the ageing structure, where workers have been framing and installing windows. To date approximately 600 out of the 1,100 windows have been put in place. The project will cost around $3 million with completion slated for this December.


New windows are shown on the twelfth floor in the train depot in Detroit on Thursday, August 13, 2015. (Photo by HB Meeks/Tell Us Detroit)

Project manager Ken Carter said the clean-up has cost about $12 million, so far, including restoring electricity to the station and installing a $4 million elevator capable of carrying freight and passengers.

The Moroun family has been working feverishly the past few years working to clean this building up and ready it for redevelopment, although there is no plan for use at this time.

The building is located in the Corktown district of Detroit near the Ambassador Bridge, approximately one mile southwest of downtown Detroit. It is located behind Roosevelt Park.

Mayor Mike Duggan announced in April that the building's owners would install 1,100 windows this year as part of a land transfer deal with the city. City Council last month approved the agreement with the Detroit International Bridge Co.


The new windows are expected to upgrade the exterior of the train station. The 18- story building fell into disrepair after rail service ended in 1988. (Photo by HB Meeks/Tell Us Detroit)

Matthew Moroun, son of owner Matty Moroun, said in a statement earlier this year that they will be investing $15-25 million into Michigan Central Station over the next year. The owners will continue investing in cleanup and restoration to the building in an effort to "...clean, protect, preserve and secure" the site.

The new windows are expected to upgrade the exterior of the train station. The 18- story building fell into disrepair after rail service ended in 1988.


 

 

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