More importantly, what did their pig-in-a-poke look like in 1995?  A steaming POS.

Some history:

Mark Longton Jr. bought the terminal in December 1989, and the pistol-packing real estate developer who tried his best to keep scavengers out for more than a year, come hell or gunfire. He sought to hit the jackpot by reopening the decaying depot, which by this point had no electricity and no heat, as a casino. He envisioned a nightclub dubbed the Midnight Express--after the train that once pulled out of the station--and a hotel carved out of the office tower. But the voters wouldn't agree to add casinos until 1996, and Longton gave up before the vote came, as he was paying thousands a month in bills.

Throughout the 1990s, Detroit's monument to the golden age of railroads remained wide open to trespass and looting. During that time, vandals stole anything of value, such as brass fixtures, copper wiring, decorative railings along balconies and staircases, plaster rosettes from the ceiling and marble from walls and the base of columns. Those who didn't steal found other ways to disgrace it. Nary a window is left intact out of the hundreds that once filled the monstrous building. Inside, graffiti is everywhere, with some tags nearly 15 feet tall and dozens of feet long. Paintball matches were regularly held inside its corridors, splattering neon greens and electric blues all over the yellow brick.

And at every attempt of two very wealthy owners of the MCS, they faced nothing but impediments and typical Detroit thievery.  Quite frankly, the only thing I fault the Moroun Family on, is squandering good money on a city full of Progressive prowerbrokers and poverty leaches.

Honestly, if I were in their shoes by know I'd gone totally Atlas Shrugged on SE Michigan with divesting everything after the scam DRIC and all the BS the City and Stanley Christmas played with the MCS.  It's an old equation that every good plumber knows... sh!t runs downhill.

Life's too precious to be squandering irreplaceable time on them, not to mention anymore money on those without pride for bettering themselves.