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Ford Motor Co. has big plans for its recently acquired Michigan Central Station in Detroit. If we're following this correctly, the complex is in talks to possibly include:
• Ford's autonomous vehicle laboratory, the anchor of a campus where 2,500 people will work.
• Retail open to the public.
• ...including a fruit stand, if we are to believe the rendering above.
• Restaurants.
• Housing. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has suggested high-end lofts, specifically.
• Big Sean's Emagine movie theater, the "Sean Anderson Theatre Powered by Emagine."
• ...which could also feature a performance venue.
• Oh yes, and train tracks, just in case they still want to do the whole train thing.
These are grand plans, plans as grand as the hulking 105-year-old ruin itself, it would seem. Then again, they aren't that far-fetched: The 500,000-square-foot station's 15-story tower was always intended to include offices, but they were never filled with tenants.
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