we'll take you inside the iconic Michigan Central Station to see the results of a six year restoration project by Ford Motor Company.

Plus, musician Brian Blade talks about his role as Detroit Jazz festival artist in residence with her.

Also ahead, a look at how restaurants in Michigan served various versions of iconic Coney Island hot dogs.

And we'll give you some ideas on how you can spend this weekend.

It's all coming up next on one Detroit.

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Just ahead on one, Detroit award winning drummer Brian Blade talks about his love of jazz and this year's Detroit Jazz Festival.

Plus, we'll show you how the Coney Island hot dog looks different in cities across the state.

And Peter Ward from 90.9, WRC shares some fun events taking place in metro Detroit this weekend.

But first up, a long vacant Detroit landmark reopened today.

The Michigan Central Station was a hub for train travelers before it closed more than 30 years ago.

Now it has undergone a massive restoration by Ford Motor Company.

Once a symbol of the city's decay, the iconic building now symbolizes the future of mobility and innovation.

When Detroit took a tour with Michigan Central CEO Josh Silverman and head of place Melissa Dittmar, who leads planning, design, construction and development of places in spaces in Michigan Central, the entirety of For three decades, the Michigan Central train station sat vacant in Detroit, falling into deep decay.

Then in 2018, Ford Motor Company purchased the station.

Ford invited one Detroit to Corktown to see the transformation Michigan Central Station has undergone.

Everything has been restored to as best possible to what its original condition is often talk now about that, that the building is in some ways in its most pristine condition in some ways ever.

We took out 3.5 million gallons of water from the station over the first 18 months.

Most of that water was in the basement, but some of it just ran inside into various rooms and over the columns like this that led to this sort of wonderful grooved feeling.

That feeling captures the station's history, spanning more than a century.

The station was originally designed by the same architects who did New York's Grand Central Station Building start occupancy in 1913.

The station last passenger rail stopped in 1988, then said vacant for free for 36 years.

The clock positioned between the grain hall and the South concourse is a prime example of how the restoration aims to merge the past and present.

This historic clock was able to be reproduced because we had original components from the clock itself, not the entirety of it, but components of it.

And then working with those historic wood pieces, plus the original drawings, we were able to recreate the beautiful clock that will keep us on track as we move forward into the next century.

This portion of the arcade here will be activated with experiential retail, food and beverage.

Things like that will start in the fall.

With activity like that happening in the building.

When you approach the station from the park and make your way through the main entry doors.

You'll be greeted by the Grand Hall.

Grand Hall is obviously not just probably the most spectacular space here in Detroit, but but certainly one of them in the country, if not the world.

It was lined with oak benches that were inset into the floor here.

And you can see them remnants of those.

And what they were.

This sort of gust of vino, tiled, arched ceiling is magnificent.

It is clay tile and there's 29,000 tiles up there and that's over eight miles of grout.

When the station was purchased, the Grand Hall's windows were inoperable.

The cast iron rosettes and filigree flanking the windows were removed or decayed.

The few that were salvaged were 3D scanned and printed at the Ford Manufacturing lab before the last stop on our tour.

We made our way to the south concourse.

On its surface, it's almost identical to the way it looked in the 1940s when it serviced nearly 4000 people a day.

But below its surface is modern technology.

We have, for example, in here in floor cooling as part of how we will heat and cool this vast space.

We also, in the selection of glass throughout, worked on selecting the right types of glass to reduce cooling loads.

And so the building is going to be really future forward managed machine to keep these sort of costs low and be the most sustainable as possible.

Amid the restoration, Ford set out to honor the station's heyday, but also the time it sat vacant.

One example is the graffiti on station walls.

It was also an important chapter in the building's history.

In other cases, we have preserved some of the work itself not connected to the walls anymore.

But we will figure out how and where we can exhibit those in corporate into the design of spaces within the building.

Has there been thought given to how everything that's going on here is going to be impacting the greater area, the businesses around here, the neighborhoods around here, the people who've been here?

We have extensive relationships with communities around us on all sides and extensive relationships with the business community.

We are very proud of generating a robust amount of business for local businesses.

Part of the goal for Michigan Central Station's revival is to be a global example of what major projects like this can be to the people and places around them.

We want this to be an epicenter of talent, of innovation, of thought, of leadership that pulls together creators, community innovators, leaders, you name it, into what is really a model for elsewhere and unique and not just unique in the Detroit concepts, but in a national and international context.

Today's grand opening of Michigan Central includes a star studded concert and kicks off a ten day open house for the public.

Let's turn now to another big event for the city, the Detroit Jazz Festival for you guys.

This year's artist in residence for the Detroit Jazz Festival is acclaimed drummer, composer and bandleader Brian Blade.

In addition to performing at the festival over the Labor Day weekend, blade is taking part in educational initiatives and community outreach programs presented by the Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation.

John Penny of 90.9 was sat down with the two time Grammy Award winning musician to talk about his passion for jazz.

Brian Blade as the 2024 artist in residence at the 45th Detroit Jazz Festival.

It is an honor, a pleasure and a privilege to sit here and talk to you today.

After an incredible workshop with students at Wayne State University.

You are celebrated as one of the greatest jazz drummers playing today.

But I think to call you a jazz drummer doesn't really cut it.

It's sort of myopic.

Your roots are in the church in Shreveport.

Your father was the pastor.

When you talk about the roots and and church and the gospel, it really is the root of everything is coming up from, you know, no matter where I find myself at the school or in that concert hall or in that dive bar, the mission is still the same, you know, touching souls with with your conviction and your what you feel like your calling is, is important to me.

And the music has to speak has to speak that that same praise.

A dear friend in my hometown, Shreveport, Louisiana and gives me two cassettes.

When I started driving at age 16 of Joni's music, Higuera and Mingus.

So I'm listening to these recordings, you know, on these tapes, you know, driving to school.

And it's something I've never, you know, didn't grow up with.

And it's speaking to me a in a in a big way.

And I'm, you know, I'd heard Wayne obviously on weather report music and with Miles Davis essentially and his own record some of the first records I bought but I could have never seen ahead.

All of a sudden sharing time with my heroes, essentially making music with my heroes.

So today, you were here at Wayne State University and running a workshop, and they were playing some challenging material and what was it that you were trying to impart to them?

What's that all about?

I was encouraged just to see to see, you know, everyone playing in a band like, you know, the students with their instruments and present and not not not taking the opportunity for granted.

Mostly today I wanted to encourage the rhythm section and what what I hope is that in terms of approach, of seeing things a different way, that it takes them off the page.

Like if they can internalize all of that and really be looking not only to, to, to Mr. Scott as his conducting, but, you know, to their band mates and, and they can express something else, not just the literal part, like your role, your part in the thing.

Like you're standing in a you're walking in and you're giving it so that everyone else can, can, you know, just be that much more strengthened.

And we've made something greater than what we actually imagined, you know, because we submit it to each other.

And that's, I think, the music.

That's when it takes off and it pierces people's hearts, you know, because because you've you've given something, not taken something.

So the whole dynamic has to come to a place where it's like, okay, our pianissimo is truly that language.

It's it's even more so.

And then our dynamics are also much more dramatic and and impactful and so I hope that the the students here at Wayne State University, they would, you know, also see see through the page, so to speak, know, read between the lines so that they can inspire inspire something else in the ensemble.

I love that.

So coming up as the artist in residence at the Jazz festival this year, you're going to have a few performances and bring some sensibilities to what can we look forward to?

Well, initially a fellowship band concert.

Then I'm collaborating with two dear friends of mine, Edward Simon, pianist from Venezuela.

I've known a very long time, and Scott Colley, bassist.

We have a project called Three Visitors, appropriately titled for this for this occasion and will feature Becca Stevens, great singer and songwriter and and and a string octet composed of Detroit, symphonic musicians.

Looking forward to that.

And then a big band that is in its core is the Fellowship band conducted by Jim McNeely and his arrangements of some of my my music and John's music for the Fellowship Band.

The fact that this festival is is, you know, open to the public free.

It's it's a really incredible, you know, to me in the world, it's unique not just in the country.

I must say, I'm excited about sharing all this with the community here in Detroit.

And Brian Blade had a lot more to say.

You can check out his entire interview with John Penny at one Detroit pbs.org.

When it comes to things that are truly Detroit.

The Coney Island hot dog has to be near the top of the list.

There's a lot of history behind Coney Island hot dogs.

But did you know the iconic dishes served differently in cities around the state?

When Detroit's Bill Kubota reports on the county's popularity in Michigan.

Kony, Kony, Kony.

Kony.

Kony.

Truly Detroit, right?

Let's serve up things Detroiters might not know about the Coney Island hot dog.

Updating a story from Detroit PBS almost ten years ago.

I know you know about those two colonies right there at Michigan and Lafayette, the Lafayette and the American iconic Motor City cuisine, iconic.

And I don't use that word very often because some people overuse it, but it really is.

GRACE Chris is the third generation owner of American Coney Island.

Grace's grandfather, Gus, actually started it all down on Michigan Avenue back in 1917.

Gust Greek immigrant came through Ellis Island, stopped in Coney Island, New York, ate a hot dog there, sold them here, giving us the Detroit style.

CONEY But in Michigan, Detroit style isn't the only one.

I lived in Detroit for eight years.

But Flint County is the best.

So delicious, that is.

Yeah, I like them, but they don't like me.

The Flint style coney at Starlight.

Coney Island since 1966.

And Burton, just east of Flint and Gillies on the northern edge of the city since 1985.

How's it been?

In case of our guys oak eaters here, say.

Flint Coney Sauce is meatier and Detroit sauces.

Soupy Philly sauce is better down there.

Yeah, that's a lot drier.

It's got a lot better flavor.

People from the Detroit market really don't understand our counties.

I think obviously ours are a lot better.

Flint counties are Flint counties, and people from this area know and understand Flint counties.

Dave Lipsky wrote the book The Flint Coney A Savory History.

The Coney became as big as it was because of the autoworkers.

So the two work hand in hand.

FLINT The vehicles city.

General Motors factory.

Town.

Assembly lines.

Making cars in cones.

It's kind of an assembly line.

It really is.

There is times, you know, back in the day, we would serve three or 4000 people a day.

And it was one guy stay in the station, does his job, another guy in the station, and it would just get shoved down the line.

And it has to be timed perfectly, too.

So you need hot food to go out hot in this area.

Because when I was young, there was lots of Coney Island, Flint, Coney, some running 24 hours right next to the car plants.

Like the factories, the Coney said dwindled, although a few are still going strong.

Everybody knows what a career it is.

So it describes the type of business you are, but you don't pay a four inches for you.

David Gilley got his start working at Starlight.

He ran a Coney in nearby Carlisle in the 1970s before building a new place in Mount Morris.

Everybody says, Why don't you just use your name?

Gilley But Gilley's in Texas was big.

Yeah, that's cool.

Gilley's, the world's largest nightclub.

Real cowboy.

The eighties, the era of the urban Cowboy was because of what you think a real cowboy is.

No mechanical bull at this gilley's, no beer or barbecue, but plenty of Coney disco come to me with.

You know, I. I've been tearing down Ponderosa since, and I have a whole bunch of country Western motif decor.

You.

You might like this.

yeah, that sounds cool.

Gilley He recently retired, but he likes to visit his restaurant, lives on because he sold it to his employees.

The origins of the Coney starts not in Greece.

It's Macedonia.

Immigrants from the same part of Europe, the Balkan wars of 1908 1913 decimated the area.

Greeks and Macedonians were leaving in droves, just going wherever they could not ranging.

On the other side of it was my husband's uncle, Jorge Ramos.

Jorge ran off and other Macedonians, including one named Simeon.

Brian, came to the U.S. and headed west before he reached Flint.

He had a hot dog in Rochester, New York, and then he had another one in the Buffalo area and didn't really like it, said it was tasteless, thought he could do better and based it on a macedonian stew.

According to Dave Lipski, the Flint style koni appeared in the early 1920s and it seems Macedonians here knew little about the Greeks in their Coney Islands down in Detroit.

Yeah, we got a lot of stuff on years, Absolutely.

The way you like it.

Absolutely.

You order exercise?

Yes, we always do when we come here.

The company has a ground beef heart that's spiced with cumin and paprika and chili powder and some minced onion in there as well.

And then just topped with yellow mustard and chopped onions, he said.

Beef, heart, ground beef, heart.

Its ground smaller than a hamburger its but it's still firm because its heart muscle.

Yeah.

If you took a hamburger and ground with that small would turn to mush.

And it sounds bad to say beef up for people to realize before it's your only organ in your body.

That is a muscle.

It's again, it's a really lean, solid muscle.

Beat that beef heart.

Common in Detroit style coney sauce too.

Maybe you knew that too, but you droite style.

Flint style.

A preference.

Probably just what you're used to.

Then there's Lansing.

A bipartisan approach to these contrasting and coni cultures.

We offer both the Detroit version Coney and the Flint version.

Dominic Miguel De runs parties.

Coney Island.

You know, being the halfway point, we get people coming from Flint.

I'm from Detroit.

You know, it's really about 5050 between the two, honestly.

We got our world famous Detroit Coney Island sauce and our famous Flint meaty sauce.

And even for the customers, they want to mix together.

We call it the Saginaw, Saginaw.

Lest we forget, Jackson, Michigan, in the Jackson style, Coney down by the train station, there's Jackson, Coney Island and Virginia.

Coney Island.

Come here often?

yeah.

It's like every day.

Every day.

Every day.

Jackson, birthplace of the Republican Party, and some might say the birthplace of the Michigan Coney.

A few years before the Coney Island appeared in Detroit.

1914 is the year that we officially consider the Virginia Coney Island to come into existence.

Joe MATTHEWS owns Virginia Coney Island, where the original owners came from Macedonia to a few stores over the competition.

Three are coming back.

JACKSON Coney Island, where Brittney Craig is in charge.

Thank you.

Long ago, Virginia and Jackson were owned by the same family.

I've heard all kinds of different stories.

I was here in 1914, so I can't confirm any of them.

From what I understand, the documentation was destroyed at city Hall when they had a fire, like years ago.

Compare this to Detroit with this iconic Lafayette in American Coney Island.

Originally owned by Greek brothers turned rivals.

That's the similar story that we had here.

Yes, the Macedonian brothers apparently could not see eye to eye on whatever the issue was.

So the one left and started the other one, the Coney sauce here, a two step process will take some meat, bring some of the juices, bring it in.

Getting the consistency right is key.

We mix it up.

The Jackson Coney tastes a lot like Flint, according to Coney advocate Dave Linsky, who leaves us with some sage advice.

It's just it's a state of mind.

A cone is all over the country.

Have the coney that you like, but also enjoy the other ones, just like you would with pizza and hamburger.

When you have a swing, can't win in Detroit, have a Detroit Coney.

But in Jackson.

Same thing.

There's a lot going on in the metro Detroit area this weekend from fairs and festivals to a sports themed event.

There's something for everyone.

Here's Peter Worf of 90.9 WRC.

With today's one Detroit weekend.

Hi, I'm Peter Wharfe with 90.9 WRC.

Excited to tell you about some great events we have going on this weekend and beyond in the metro Detroit area.

And you better believe there are some great summer festivals heading our way, like today through Sunday.

One Melvin Dale Ice Arena plays host to Melvin Dale Days.

The fair includes carnival rides, delicious food, live entertainment, and it's topped off by a magnificent fireworks display Friday through the ninth as the first ever Detroit sports spectacular at the suburban collection showplace where fans can have memorabilia signed by sports legends Barry Sanders, Ben Wallace, Kirk Gibson and Donovan Edwards.

Just some of the incredible athletes scheduled to be there.

If art is more your thing, Friday through Sunday is the pool, house and garden show at public pottery.

The event includes strolling tours, wheel, throwing demos and sculpting demos.

And if you're searching for the luck of the Irish, look no further than GREENE Meade Historical Park in Livonia, where the Motor City Irish Fest takes place Friday through the ninth.

You get to see live local Irish bands, enjoy delicious food, fun games and sample Irish whiskey.

Of course, June is Pride Month, and the Motor City Pride Festival is Saturday and Sunday in Hard Plaza.

So head out there to support the LGBTQ plus community and the fun doesn't stop there.

There's so much more to do around here, so here's a few more.

Enjoy the weekend.

That'll do it for this week's one Detroit.

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