Whether or not you visited the newly-restored Michigan Central Station during the open house this past summer, there’s still plenty more to do there during the fall.
Michigan Central is now offering ticketed historical tours in partnership with Detroit History Tours, a local company known for its award-winning walking and bus tours like “Wild Women of Detroit” and “Art History, and Oddities of The Detroit People Mover.”
The Michigan Central tours will feature historical insights, and an in-depth behind-the-scenes look at the building’s restoration. It will also allow visitors into areas not accessible to the public. The tours are photography-friendly. While The Station is currently closed to the public due to construction, tours can now be booked for group and guided tours, which will begin in three weeks.
“From The Station’s legendary past to its exciting future, we are excited to share this landmark’s story with the world,” said Detroit History Tours owner Bailey Sisoy-Moore in a press release.
Additionally, this fall, Yellow Light, a coffee and donut shop on Detroit’s east side, is getting a second location in Michigan Central Station — making it the building’s first food and drink tenant since 1988. It will be located immediately off The Station’s east entrance in the building’s historic retail arcade. Apart from the entrance and coffee shop space, access to the rest of the ground floor will be limited for customers outside of tours, a spokesperson told Hour Detroit.
The café and bakehouse has unique offerings like coffee slushies, hot chicken/pickle biscuits, and donuts in flavors like birthday cake, key lime, or brown butter plantain. It was founded in 2020 by Christine and Jacques Driscoll (Johnny Noodle King, Green Dot Stables) and Niko Dimitrijevic.
Michigan Central Station opened June 6 after years of renovations following Ford Motor Co.’s purchase of the building in 2008. For the past three months or so, The Station hosted an open house on weekends with food trucks and outdoor music, as well as free self-guided tours of the ground floor, which featured several displays about the building’s history and restoration. The Station saw about 167,000 visitors during that time, according to a press release.
For more information and to purchase tour tickets, go to michigancentral.com/visit.
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