After all the hoopla and publicity over the reopening, including a concert and a wave of tours, Ford Motor Co. is finally starting to move employees into Michigan Central Station in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood.
Carolina Pluszczynski, COO of Michigan Central, tells Crain’s Detroit Business sister publication Automotive News last month that the move-in date is Tuesday, Oct. 8 and “we’ll see a couple of Ford floors.”
Crain's reports that office floors in the are approximately 26,000 square feet each, which would give Ford at least 52,000 square feet to start with.
The first tenant was Google’s Code Next program, which moved into the building in July.
Last month, the station announced it landed its first food and beverage tenant -- Yellow Light Coffee & Donuts, which operates a shop on Detroit's east side on E. Jefferson. It will open later this year in the station’s historic retail arcade.
The Ford Motor Company bought Michigan Central Station in 2018 from the wealthy Moroun family for $90 million and sunk hundreds of millions of dollars to restore it to its original beauty. In all, Ford will spend about $940 million to develop the train station and other buildings on a 30-acre campus in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood, just west of downtown.