Michigan Central Station Archives

Matterport 101 – Three Unusual Use Cases

December 9, 2022December 9, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments afro deli, afro deli st. paul, dubuque, ford motor company, ilitch, matterport, matterport camera, matterport pro 2, mattertag, Michigan Central Station, moten, saturday night building detroit, use cases for matterport

The Matterport platform offers plenty of opportunities well outside the realm of simply creating virtual tours for real estate listings.

A screenshot of a tweet of a Local WDIV Channel 4 news van blocking the two-way bike lanes on Bagley Avenue in Southwest Detroit near the MIchigan Central Station project on a chilly and overcast fall evening.

Mobility Parking

What, Me Block A Bike Lane? Trouble at Ford’s Ziggurat of Mobility

November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bagley st., bike lane, bike lanes, detroit police, detroit police department, economic development, Ford, ford motor company, liberty sheet metal, mannik smith, mcs, michigan central, Michigan Central Station, protected bike lanes, public safety, safe streets, sharrow, sharrows, street safety, traffic control devices, traffic enforcement

The Blue Oval scores another kind of big, fat, blue oval, rotated 90°, for its commitment to walkability and bikeability in the new Michigan Central Station project.

Real Estate Policy Urban Planning Law

The Morouns Tore Down A Warehouse For More Truck Parking. Really. [EDITED]

July 9, 2021July 14, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments BSEED, building department, city of detroit, city of detroit government, climate change, corktown, criminal negligence, david bell, Detroit, drainage, drainage assessment, duggan, duggan administration, enforcement, flooding, hardscaping, impervious surfaces, industrial slumlords, manuel moroun, matty moroun, Michigan Central Station, mike duggan, moroun, moroun clan, moroun empire, municipal incompetence, pervious surfaces, rain tax, Regulation, slumlords, southwest detroit, southwest solutions, ted bundy, west side industrial

Walking from home to Corktown last night in search of food and drink with some out-of-town visitors who were eager

Detroit Historic preservation Mobility Transit infrastructure

Tour of Ford’s Michigan Central Station Project

September 22, 2020September 21, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments adaptive reuse, biking, corktown, dearborn, Density, Detroit, detroit international bridge company, economic development, Ford, ford motor, historic preservation, land use planning, matty moroun, Michigan Central Station, micromobility, mobility, Mobility Corridor, moroun, multi-modal transportation, new mobility, public transit, regional transit authority, RTA, scooters, southeast michigan, speculation, train station, train stations, trains, transit, transit infrastructure, trump, urban living

Michigan Central Station, the iconic, hulking, centenarian structure that has sat vacant for decades, is perhaps the flagship redevelopment project

Business & Economics

Detroit Policy Conference Touts Collaboration, Cultivating Local Talent, Transit Connectivity

January 29, 2020January 30, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments corktown, dave coulter, detroit policy conference, detroit regional chamber, dug song, Ford, ilitch, Ilitches, manufacturing, mary culler, Michigan Central Station, mike duggan, motor city casino, shinola, southeast michigan

Months before the Davos of the Great Lakes, a.k.a. the Mackinac Policy Conference, draws visitors to the historic island off