What Ford plans to do with the Glass House site and its other property holdings
Ford Motor Co., while preparing to evacuate employees from the current world center on Michigan Boulevard To move to a new world center about a mile awayThe car manufacturer continues to hold many properties in Dearborn and Metro Detroit and have plans for the site that holds the current world center.
On September 15, Ford announced that it carried the world center with approximately 2,000 employees to a region near the Henry Ford Museum from Michigan Boulevard. Ford is building a new innovation center in Oakwood Boulevard and Village Road, which once organized the product development center. The new building will be the new Ford world center of the car manufacturer dedicated in November.
Ford Land CEO Jim Dobleske, Detroit Free Press, despite the car manufacturer’s various buildings and unloading movements around the Dearborn in recent years, the car manufacturer’s new sites such as the new innovation center or the renewal of existing properties, he said. Ford Land is Ford’s real estate section.
In November 2022, Ford sold a 670,000 square meter regent court building along the Executive Plaza Drive in Dearborn. The new owner began to demolish last year. Free Press Report.
The destruction of the regent court along the Southfield Motorway in Dearborn.
Dobleske, automobile manufacturer, the current world central building called the glass house of 212 acres of campus will maintain the ownership, he said.
“Yes, no question, we will continue to have. We have a few other facilities to continue to operate on this campus,” he said. He continued: “The world center and the already evacuated Old Ford credit building, will open another 100 acres or benefit for alternative purposes.”
Ford, a data center building on the campus where the glass house is located, as well as the Service Research Center building, operates a garage to service vehicles. They will continue to work there even when the glass house falls, which is expected to happen at the end of 2027 or in the middle of 2028.
Dobleske said Ford worked with the city of Dearborn to optimize the best use of that site when the glass house fell. However, he did not ignore building another building there in the future.
“It doesn’t have to be another building there, D Dobleske said. He continued: “We knew we would download it … And it takes advantage of the green area. We wanted to protect it if we will do anything for any reason in the future.”
Ford thought that being a partner with the city was “a good opportunity to be a big neighbor” and stressed that “a community field will be really good, no matter what, no matter what, and we will continue to develop future plans with the mayor.”
Ford In 2019 he announced that he renewed his campus. Today, he tried to ensure that the sites he owns are the companies to be used by the company and to be designed to facilitate the type of business of the company.
Ford Motor Company World Center 1 It is seen in this photo taken in Dearborn on Tuesday, September 9, 2025 at the American Road.
Including the new building, a list of Ford’s largest and most well -known properties in Dearborn and its surroundings, all renewed or new construction:
Driving Dynamic Laboratory (TrackSide): TrackSide, which is located in Ford’s Dearborn Development Center on Oakwood Boulevard, has engineering functions.
Innovation Center and World Headquarters: On this new campus on Oakwood Boulevard, the new Ford World Headquarters building, which can hold up to 4,000 people and is dedicated to the new headquarters in November, will take place.
Ford Engineering Laboratory: The 100 -year -old building on Oakwood Boulevard was designed by architect Albert Kahn and passed. A few re -design and adding on the date. Focuses on the health and inspiration of new employees.
Rotunda Central: He was destroyed by fire in 1962 An important episode in Ford Rot Metro Detroit and Ford History. The site remained empty until 2000. Michigan Technical Education Center opened. The center, which is a part of Henry Ford College, offers professional certificates and tests and contains labor and professional development programs.
Wagner Place: 150,000 square meters MIXED USE DEVELOPMENTMiichigan Boulevard between Mason and Monroe. The upper floors office area and first floor retail sales, restaurants and healthy living tenants make this urban area a real place in West Downtown Dearborn.
Ford Experience Center: Ford Experience Center in Village Road in Dearborn is a meeting place for employees, dealers and others to cooperate.
New Model Programs Development Center: These office areas on Oakwood Boulevard were reopened in July 2024 after a major renovation for infrastructure and systems. Renewal, more natural light, cooperation areas, seating tale individual workstations and production team areas with 98,000 square meters open design.
Corktown, Detroit Factory: Ford carried business and strategy teams, including Edison Team, to a building of 45,000 square meters. 1907 Michigan Ave Factory. His location once hosted Chicago Hosiery and Detroit-Alaska Knitting Mills Factories.
Corktown, Michigan Central Station in Detroit: Ford has invested close to $ 1 billion to buy and renew the old train station. Now a new mobility in Detroit’s oldest neighborhood Corktown is a new mobility innovation zone.
Detroit Free Press said in a statement, Dearborn Spokesman Hassan Abbas, the city expects Ford to progress, he said.
“The importance of the Ford Motor Company to our community cannot be exaggerated. More than the industrial heartbeat of the modern American economy, Ford’s legacy was deeply intertwined with the history of this city. The city of Dearborn will always be on the street or on the right, but it will be Ford’s house.
Dobleske said Ford continued to want to contribute to the Dearborn economy as Ford came to the city to work.
Dobleske, “We make a very close partner with the city, Henry Ford Village, Fairlane Estate, Marriott, Michigan Central Station, which we reopened earlier this year, all these beings.” He said. “Not only to tell them the story of the history of Ford Motor Co. and to talk about our present time, but also Ford Motor Co.
In addition to the construction of Ford’s work to build a new innovation campus with a new world headquarters, it will create a walkable environment for renewing 29 buildings and the 14 million square meter area in the new center will create a walking environment not only on the campus, but also for Michigan Boulevard. “
Ford focused on optimization of the property portfolio globally, but especially in Daarborn.
“Although he attracts many of them – I will think of the old -type facilities about how we work today – we still have the same square shots in the Dearborn community.” He said. He said: “When a few buildings, in addition to the new center and world headquarters, we either left the leases or sold these properties because of the works we have done in some other facilities.
Jamie L. Lareau is a senior automobile writer covering Ford Motor Co. for Detroit Free Press. Contact Jamie at jlareau@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @Jlareauaan. Sign up for us Automatic bulletin. Subscribe.
