Bill Ford: I couldn't give up on Michigan Central Station renovation
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- Bill Ford, 67, executive chair of Ford Motor Co., is the great-grandson of founder Henry Ford. He is also the visionary behind the resurrection of the train station at 2001 15th St. in Corktown, abandoned since 1988. The site is seared into the memories of soldiers - and their families - who went off to war and came home on those trains.
The grand reopening is set for June 6 and expected to draw tens of thousands of onlookers just the first day.
Ford spent $950 million to develop the 30-acre campus, transforming and redeveloping multiple properties in Corktown, according to a company spokesman.
Despite the costly and overwhelming obstacles, Ford said he never could have given up and shut down the effort begun after the company purchased the train station back in 2018.
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Thank you Mr. Ford This is so much more than just the train station, it's about Detroit. What a wonderful thing you did!
Agree. The whole Ford family has done so much for America, and the world. Thanks Bill. Showing possibilities, and leading our imagination! It's truly remarkable.
Our modern day HERO! What a gift you've given to the city of Detroit and all its people. THANK YOU!! Magnificent!!
how? they saw the state of Michigan buy galley cars to get the detroit/ann arbor commuter rail project off the ground and quickly bought up the logical eastern terminus and tore out all the track to prevent it from happening so we have to buy more cars (how they make money). now the tax payers are paying 3k a day to store cars in owasso because we wont have passenger tracks at the station
@@erik548wow 3k a day, sounds like our state government is inept
@@Detroittruckdoctor55 well we would have been using them for profit by now, but the station tracks are gone, so we cant
This INCOMPREHENSIBLE restoration on a truly unimaginable scale is NOTHING SHORT OF SUPER HUMAN!!! Thank you Ford, a billion times over for completing this gargantuan, world-class and mind boggling task and making Detroits' star shine like a SUPER NOVA on the world stage!!!❤‼‼‼
Very well said!!!
Thanks Mr. Ford ! Awesome accomplishment that will benefit many future generations .
Great job! Thank you for saving our heritage. A wonderful contribution to your community.
Thank you Mr. Ford - what an amazing project. Kudos to you and the Ford Motor Company. You've put a great deal of pride back into the community!
THANK YOU FOR ALL OF US WHO LOVE ARCHITECTURE! ❤
So glad to see Detroit coming back, thank you sir.
..smart responsible man leading a company that supports its American community and city of Detroit, Michigan.
Complete waste a money if you are a business owner - A TRUE FORD DECISION - CRAP COMPANY CHEAP STUFF
@@MarcusAurelius7777
@@MarcusAurelius7777 What do you know ....... a nobody.
@@3markaw This area is a SHITHOLE - DO NOT MOVE TO THIS AREA or work here unless you cannot afford to live anywhere else - trust me
@@MarcusAurelius7777 You are talking to someone who lives in the Cleveland area AND grew up in NYC during the big decline. I certainly know what holes are. When I bought real estate in NYC everyone thought I was nuts and told me I should be moving out , not into that hood. What I paid for in the early eighties is now approaching ten times what I paid for it. I see long term possibilities. I don't dwell on all of today's problems ( of which the whole midwest has many...not only Detroit ) .
Thank you, Mr Ford. You have saved a wonderful landmark that will add a great deal to the city. Can't wait to get inside!
A good place to put a historic car(s) on display.
He did a great job, it looks great.
Thanks to all the hard hats, the engineers, the designers, the runners, the food preps, the everyone who helped to make this happen!!!!! Thanks Bill Ford, for your vision and for putting your money where your mouth is!
Wow this is a special place and without Bill Ford obviously this place would never have gotten the funding.
Awesome job Mr. Ford, with the new bridge, the downtown area is looking great. Thanks
Way to go, Bill. I have numerous fond memories of the train station. As a young man it was a treat for the eyes to take numerous dates there for coffee & snacks& walk around to take in the architecture. When I was drafted into the Army in 1966, everyone left from this station to Fort Knox, Campbell or Sill for basic training. I shocked my parents before boarding the train by kissing a gorgeous brunette girlfriend goodbye "Sailor & Nurse style" from the WW2 Life magazine photo. What a thrill. I also left in this station on New Year's Day 1967 on a train to report to Fort Carson Colorado due to overbooked flights out of Metro airport & saw parts of the country where there were no roads. Great memories.
Way to go ford!! When i was young and stupid, i got in there and walked about and seen the damage 1st hand. And in 2018 , hearing Bill fords overseeing the new construction , i knew it would be grand! So congratulations Bill Ford.
Wow look at that skyline really painting the city in a good light for once.
Good on you Mr. Ford !! Your families benevolence for the great city of Detroit Michigan and your penchant for picking empowering regions is well established and is a great asset to a progressive city , that has endured and seen it all. Detroit has collectively survived so many false starts and is a showpiece in Michigan. Greetings from the Canadian shores of Lake Huron!! All the best to you and yours!! GIDDYUP!!
It's beautiful! Fabulous work by Mr. Ford and his team.
~Sean & Kally of Detroit
Thank you, Mr. Ford 👍👍. What a tremendous accomplishment.
Dudes a hero! Can't wait to go and visit
Thanks for saving and repurposing an abandoned great train station to a new use. I did get to see this as a train station on my first visit to Detroit in the 1970’s. I was starting to look run down even then. The last time I visited Detroit it was no longer the train station but an empty deteriorating building symbolizing Detroits days of decay. Detroit has now made much progress to become a great city again. This project is helping in an area other than downtown that also should bring pride to the area around it. I hope it has another long life as a useful building and even possibly a reuse by Amtrak as a train station again.
Thank God Mr. Ford had the foresight to reatore such a beautiful piece of architecture! Well done and congratulations to Detroit and Mr. Ford!!!
Good to see Detriot coming back.
It broke my heart to see the station in its dilapidated state. Thank you, Mr. Ford.
The Ford family has done so much for the people of Detroit. Countless families have benefited greatly by the good works of the Ford family. From employment opportunities to family healthcare. Detroit would be far less without the hard work and generosity of the Ford family and Ford Motor Company. Bill Ford Jr is a great leader and true gentleman.
Look forward to seeing it and walking through it.
Skilled trades deserve a KUDOS
Cool logo at the end! I was able to work on this project it's nice to see it finished where I have so many pictures of it being built out. Congratulations Ford great job!
This IS A GOOD STEWART for the city of DETROIT ( My opinion )
Way to dream big Mr Ford! Thanx!!
A beautiful building and I am glad that Ford has restored it. I hope it is successful.
My grandfather (r.i.p. c.1960's) worked there from the time he came to America until he retired MANY many many years ago. Knowing that it is being renovated and rebuilt would "put that spark back in his step" if he knew.
You have to give Bill Ford and the Ford Corporation macho credit for accomplishing and taking this on.
I admit I broke into that place in 2001. I was with two friends. We did no harm. Just wanted to explore. You have done a magnificent job of restoring it. Kudos
Thx for justifying my 3 Fords now, and 4 in the past. Fords are the best American cars!
What a great American, thank you Mr. Ford.
I always loved this building. Even in its horrible state. It is such a beautiful building.
The building looks incredible! Also so happy to hear that the building will be a bridge between Corktown and Mexicantown. Having a nice walk between the two neighborhoods would be huge for the area.
Good job Bill
as a combat vet I finally found something I can be proud of as a american..those worker's were all amazing......
Spectacular Mr Ford, spectacular...plus nice shoes! 😁
I had my first real job there in 1983. Conrails Detroit HQ was there at the time.
Great vision and follow-through! The icing on the cake will be if there is some kind of rail service from the station.
thank you Ford.it's amazing
Excellent
😳 almost a billion dollars to restore 😮. Kudos to Ford and all the workers.
Bravo.
Maybe Bill can get the original benches reinstalled.
I want to work in that space.
Well, that's great! Now can Bill focus on making a nice, simple stylish affordable vehicle... why not?
Hey, it worked back in the day. Maybe try it again. Give it a shot.
is it possible to have passenger rail service restored to this AWESOME TRAIN STATION ???
It’s only taken 3/4’s of century for Detroit to realize its former glory.
“Detroit has been hung with a few nicknames over the years, but it’s probably been a few years since you heard it called the “Paris of the West.” Okay, I know. You’ve never heard it called that. But in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century, before “Motown,” “Motor City,” and more recently, “Murder City,” people called Detroit the “Paris of the West.”
Detroit is not coming back any time soon but it's still nice to see this beautiful building saved from further decay. Hopefully there will be funds available to keep it in good shape for a few decades.
Can we take a Tour Detroit train station and Can anyone do TH-cam videos about that place we just asking my friend and we can't wait for the Grin opening
Will it be used for train service? If not what’s its purpose? Hotel? Community space? Restaurants? Condos? Curious to see what they do with the new building.
office space + retail, restaurants and a "first of its kind mobility testing platform". There's also talk that trains could return to the station but nothing is concrete.
@@generalsnout9607 trains should return. I mean it is a train station. Amtrak should invest in the property and give Detroit a real train station again.
0:45 ... Wow!
Awesome project!! My main concern is taxes, and up keep costs is this a viable investment for Ford folks??
It might become an amazing tourist attraction, especially if they get commuter rail going between the airport, The Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Rouge Factory, Windsor, and Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti. Imagine all that combined with the hotel, new Michigan Avenue transit link to downtown, and the autonomous and E.V. public displays and testing platform at Michigan Central. Mr. Henry Ford Jr. is a visionary and this is an amazing time to be in Michigan and Detroit.
As long as the community continues to embrace the train station, the future looks promising. Supporting and restoring public transit and non-gasoline powered automobile vehicle options to the station, as planned, could really change the narrative of the Detroit legacy of Ford, too.
From past discussions, Ford didn't just jump into this renovation and campus.
Any chance of Amtrak returning to this renovated train station? If their rent was subsidized or made equivalent to their current Detroit train station.
• Regarding the Ford Motor Co. rebuilding the Michigan train station:
The famous quote “Corporations are people too.” may be legally true. The problem is, as people their only moral and legal obligation is greed (expressed as shareholder profits). Yet here is a hopeful example of a major corporation doing something altruistic for a community to which they owe a large part of their heritage. I hope this catches on.
Let’s get a video of Richard Bardelli…the man “in the trenches”.
Ford helped killed this station by building cars. Ford bought it back to life. Redemption.
Corny!
FORD IS THE BEST!
Modern day Majorian
AUTO SHOW!!
Funny, his family were the main culprits that squashed passenger train transport in Michigan and any public transportation in general locally. Hardly a hero. Have fun with your 300-1500/ month car payment of a vehicle you'll never own, in addition to the 200-500 monthly insurance payment and the fact the State of Michigan will be charging you per mile to drive it. -drop mic
Whats going on with the stock Bill
Your family gave up on the American worker……..which in turn led to the demise of this building…..so glad you felt the need to bring it back ….but not the worker…..
With so much revitalization, why not redo the auto factories and bring back what Detroit was.
now bring back trains and yes you’ll lose money on it but in return your real estate portfolio can blow up instantaneously if you play the cards, right.
Is it be bad is Amtrak station
sorry, the local government gave up on it. no reason to support bad policies. use your influence and funds where people THAT CARE will benefit.
Considering Ford Corp bought out all the trolley and inter urban train companies and shut down the entire system to build the outer belt highway system to sell more automobiles to make more money to shut down the urban housing community to build subdivisions connected to the highway system to sell more automobiles.
develop high end housing,,, you know that's the answer,, bring in the rich, or try to, lol
BORN INTO WEALTH. NEVER HAVING TO WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING..
So make something of yourself. He's better than the English monarchy/all monarchies bullsh!t birth "rights" based on barbaric times and stolen money/jewels.
Musta earned it in past life I guess
It beats paying that money to auto workers, I guess.
DONE WITH TAX BREAKS AT THE EX SPENCE OF POOR BLACK DETROITERS.
expense*
"Click this link for the full story..." and it brings you to a page to buy a subscription. No thanks, other than seeing a train station being restored, I don't give a crap about Detroit.
wasted money.
Unlike his father and grandfather Mr Ford gives a damn about the city of Detroit.