![]() The project, scheduled to open in 2022, is set to revive Corktown, the surrounding neighborhood that is already perking up with boutique restaurants, distilleries, and record shops. Abandoned for more than 30 years, the downtown property was purchased last year by Ford Motor Company, which will invest $750 million to create a headquarters for its autonomous vehicle division. Spanning 1.2 million square feet, it has been part of the city’s skyline for more than a century. Photograph by Stephen McGee, The New York Times/Reduxĭetroit: Michigan Central Station This majestic 18-story building was formerly one of the grandest railway stations in the U.S. The interior of Michigan Central Station in February 2010 displays both graffitied walls and towering columns and archways dating to 1913. Other industrial sites across the Midwest that are undergoing similar makeovers include: “They’re what we call really good bones.” The fact that these have brick facades with high bays and large columns and spacings between columns-while that’s not suitable for today’s manufacturing-is ideal for creative office and loft residential,” Shoag says. “There’s a character to these buildings that cannot be replicated. The 1883 GE plant, for example, spans 1.2 million square feet and formerly accommodated a 20,000-person workforce. He said millennials want to live, work, and play in dense urban spaces, which means sites such as the GE plant have suddenly become desirable because their sheer size can encompass everything new residents need in what will be an 18-hour district. In Fort Wayne, Indiana, developer Jeff Kingsbury is in the process of transforming a 39-acre former General Electric plant into Electric Works, a multi-use building that will encompass entertainment, office space, a public school, and a tech hub. ![]() That’s pretty attractive when you need support both financially and politically.” “But in these cases they’re stepping into situations where the local city council is cooperative. “Typically it can be really hard for a developer to repurpose a site,” he says. Hard to believe it was once such a majestic place for worship and prayer.Pick a Rust Belt city and you’ll likely find a relic from its glory days-an abandoned car factory, steel plant, or manufacturing facility-that serves as a reminder of its industrial past more than a half century ago.Īfter decades of disuse, many of these sites-some sprawling up to 5 million square feet-are transforming cities including South Bend, Indiana, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, thanks to redevelopment efforts that are offering tourists and residents alike new spaces for galleries, restaurants, breweries, and offices, all imbued with a sense of regional history.ĭaniel Shoag, an economist at Case Western Reserve University, in Ohio, says developers are actively scouting these Midwest sites because they tend to be located in desirable locations, such as downtown business districts, and are championed by local officials “who are open to trying new things.” Thanks for the pictures of the Methodist Church. The people here are friendly but young people and their gangs are disruptive and out of control. There are great opportunities in Gary for investors with imagination. I was considering the building as a minimum security county jail but that is no longer a possibility. Now the roof has given way, the floor is rotted and warped. At the time I saw it, the school gym was in excellent condition and could have hosted a basketball tournament. All window frames have been stolen leaving the building to rain and snow damage. Now vandals have torn out electrical wiring and all copper plumbing. They wanted $650,000 for it which was unreasonable. I was able to get in to Edison Senior High School (now abandoned). Schools are closing grocery stores are leaving as we become a "food desert" Walgreens has closed as have Fagen's Pharmacy, leaving us without a local pharmacy. I've lived here for 15 years (in Miller Beach) east side of the city and one of the better neighborhoods. We had two homes by Frank Lloyd Wright, both were set on fire and destroyed by local vandals who had no idea of their value.
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