Ford to put Detroit on the motoring map again

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Wow! A big hip-hip-hoorah to the Ford Motor Company, which has bought the Michigan Central Station and plans to restore it! The Detroit train station has become a symbol of Motor City’s downfall. The colossal 18-floors building opened in 1914 on a stone's throw to downtown Detroit in Corktown and closed in 1988. After that it fell victim to demolition, ruination, destruction, vandalism, abolishment and lots of graffiti.

Until now, as Bill Ford, the great-grandson of Henry Ford, told to the thousands who’d gathered at the monumental site last week. He said “Detroit is open for business for good” and unveiled Ford’s plans to transform Detroit into ‘a place of possibility again’, adding “Michigan Central Station is a place that in many ways tells the story of Detroit over the past century. We at Ford want to help write the next chapter, working together in Corktown with the best startups, the smartest talent and the thinkers, engineers and problem-solvers who see things differently – all to shape the future of mobility and transportation.”

Ford plans to make a renovated Michigan Central Station the cornerstone in the resurrection of the whole of Detroit. Ford CEO Jim Hackett added “While Silicon Valley focuses on moving bytes, Detroit will focus on moving people.” It’s a daring enterprise that will ask for a major financial injection, but we can only hope it will work out well. We bet Bob will like it, too. Bob, who once said that if you're a Detroiter, you are bound to be part man and part V8. May we suggest Ford to hire him for the grand re-opening to sing this song? 

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