Michigan Central Depot Blog » mcs http://www.michigancentraldepot.com/blog Blog dedicated to saving the Michigan Central Station from the Detroit City Council Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:00:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Mission Accomplished! http://www.michigancentraldepot.com/blog/2009/06/27/mission-accomplished/ http://www.michigancentraldepot.com/blog/2009/06/27/mission-accomplished/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:18:02 +0000 Walter http://www.michigancentraldepot.com/blog/?p=55 Here is an exerpt of what Mr. Christmas emailed me about the court hearing:

Hello Walter,
We accompished our goal.  The Michigan Central Depot lives.  I will
make a transcript of the court proceedings and you may post it on the
internet for all who signed the petition.

When I get the documents from him I will post them on the blog.

Thanks everyone!

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A hard-copy of the petition, which now includes Michigan Senator Cameron Brown, was overnighted today and will be in the hands of Stanley Christmas tomorrow by noon.

]]> http://www.michigancentraldepot.com/blog/2009/06/05/mcs-court-hearing-rescheduled/feed/ 8 Creation of this Site http://www.michigancentraldepot.com/blog/2009/04/16/creation-of-this-site/ http://www.michigancentraldepot.com/blog/2009/04/16/creation-of-this-site/#comments Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:42:58 +0000 Walter http://www.michigancentraldepot.com/blog/?p=6 As a teenager, I became intrigued by the Michigan Central Depot.  My friends and I have paid many visits to the station.

After the automotive industry took a down-swing and being laid-off in Michigan, I moved to Wisconsin to look for work.  I became a welder and have since been laid-off from that.  That’s a whole other post :)

I was alerted by John, a friend of mine still living in Michigan, that the station was to be demolished.  I immediately started searching the web for information about this and found that the Detroit City Council had voted to tear it down.  They actually are considering it an emergency.  I’m not sure at what point it became an emergency, but with the state of the economy and car industy, the MCS is the least of Detroit’s problems.

Shortly after finding out about the council’s decision, I found out that Stanley Christmas and the Eclipse Foundation filed a lawsuit against this.

Since I’m in Wisconsin, I started this website along with the petition, which I would appreciate you signing :)   I emailed Mr. Christmas and he applauded my efforts and suggested that I place a blog on the site as well.  Which brings us here.

Please help in saving the station, which to a lot of people, is not just another building.

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