![]() ![]() ![]() The train station is now being rehabbed after Ford Motor Company purchased it in 2018, as part of a $740 million campus project in Corktown. Arguably the most famous was Michigan Central Station, a looming presence in Detroit’s skyline that has been defaced, smashed up, scavenged, and passed between owners over the years. For decades, these “ruins” ignited the imaginations of urban explorers and bewildered European tourists alike. ![]() In Detroit, tens of thousands of abandoned structures are being torn down or renovated at a rate not previously seen. Yet many of the state’s most well-known icons of the past have been either demolished (as is the case with the ever-creepy Northville Regional Psychiatric Hospital, which drew local teenagers on dare missions for decades) or renovated (like much of Traverse City’s Northern Michigan Asylum, which has been reimagined as a series of chic cafes and shops). Michigan, in all its post-industrial and forested glory, has its fair share of ghosts. ![]()
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