GM and Ford hope to revive the city’s pride through projects centred on two iconic sites
The writer is a contributing columnist, based in Chicago Some buildings are more than just marble and masonry. That’s certainly true in Detroit, a city brought to its knees by rust-belt decline, which is resurrecting two of its most important architectural landmarks to build on the ashes of its former glory.
But Ford also tried to preserve some of “the scars that tell us where we’ve been”, including a bullet hole in one pillar and some of the graffiti, Ford’s Dan Austin, a local architectural historian, told me during a tour. Urban planning and real estate experts ask whether post-pandemic Detroit can fill the two new landmarks. Perhaps ominously, the top five floors of Michigan Central were never completed even during Detroit’s heyday, Josh Sirefman, Michigan Central chief executive, tells me.
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