Automakers

Ford, after buying Detroit train station, to outline plans for 'new era' next week

The last train pulled out of the Michigan Central Station in 1988, shortly before the Honda Accord became the best-selling car in America, a humbling milestone for the city and its top industry. (Tom Worobec)
June 10, 2018 05:00 AM

DETROIT -- Ford Motor Co. has purchased the long-blighted Michigan Central Station, a towering train depot in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood that will be the centerpiece of a sprawling urban campus the automaker will use to woo talent.

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