Michigan Central Station - 10 Years Before Ford’s Renovations (Vault Series)

Past the Present Future’s “Vault Series“ begins with a look at Detroit’s historic train station, Michigan Central Station, 10 years before Ford started renovations. At the time of the recording, the station had sat abandoned for 20 years. I filmed this footage in April 2008 with a Canon HV20 camcorder. During that era, the station was unprotected and easy to access, so I led a group of Toronto photographers and a model on a tour of the building. Michigan Central Station was Detroit’s train station for 75 years. The station and office building, opened in 1913 and built for an equivalent price in 2021 of 68 million dollars, was architected in the Beaux-Arts style by the same team who designed Grand Central Station in New York. In early 2018, Ford announced they bought Michigan Central Station and will convert it into an innovation hub. It will be an open platform for innovators, startups, entrepreneurs and other partners from around the world to develop, test and launch new mobility solutions. Join me as we travel back in time, and go exploring past the present future. J O I N T H E C O M M U N I T Y ⇢ Instagram – ⇢ X – M U S I C ⇢ Intro Music – “Reversing Time“ ⇢ Outro Music – “Reversing Time (Reprise)“ ⇢ Theme Music – “Past the Present Future“ ⇢ All music written, performed, recorded, and engineered by Chris Luckhardt. B I O G R A P H Y Chris Luckhardt has documented and photographed some of the most iconic and viral images of abandoned places around the world. He was among the first photographers to publish photos in the press from legendary abandoned places like Hashima Island, Nara Dreamland, Michigan Central Station, and Six Flags New Orleans. His body of work has led to collaborations with The White House, Netflix, Ford, GQ China, ABC News, Good Morning America, Scholastic Canada, Yahoo! Japan, and many more. In 2016, the Obama administration invited Chris to photograph a private citizen “haunted“ tour of The White House. #PastThePresentFuture #Abandoned #UrbanExploration #ChrisLuckhardt