How Ford Motor Company is reshaping Detroit into the next great tech hub

For decades, the once-elegant Michigan Central train station loomed, abandoned and decaying, over Detroit’s oldest neighborhood. The Beaux Arts beauty opened in 1913 at the height of Detroit economic and industrial power.  But public transportation was never big in the Motor City, and Detroit’s economic woes meant increasingly lighter traffic through the palatial station. The last train departed Michigan Central in 1988. As the building was left to molder, it became an international...