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Bill Shea
Crain's Detroit
The $22.5 million Rosa Parks Transit Center at the corner of Cass and Michigan avenues in Detroit opens to the public Tuesday.
The three-story, 25,700-square-foot facility owned by the city will serve as a 24-hour central connection for Detroit Department of Transportation, SMART and Transit Windsor bus routes and the Detroit People Mover.
On site are a waiting area, restrooms, retail space, transit police offices, transit services and a Detroit Police Department mini station. There is also a taxi stand.
The project, begun two years ago, was funded by state and federal grants.
It was designed by Detroit-based Parsons Brinckeroff and the general contractor was DeMaria Building Co.
The Detroit Economic Development Corp. in 2007 approved a $5.5 million contract with USAShade & Fabric Structures Inc. of Costa Mesa, Calif., for the massive seven-peaked canopy structure atop the facility.
The project was built for DDOT by Detroit Economic Growth Corp., which staffs the DEDC.
The 20 DDOT routes served by the center are: Cadillac-Harper, Chene, Dexter, Fort, Hamilton, Hayes, Grand River, Grand River, Jefferson, Joy Road, Linwood, Mack, Michigan, Oakland, Plymouth, Russell, Tireman, Van Dyke, Vernor and Woodward.
2 comments:
The innovative Tensile canopies were designed by FTL design Engineering studio.
wow, posiyivly amazing. it looks like a big ship. i like ships. do you like ships? ships are pretty cool man. dont you agree man? GOOO ROSSA PARKS
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