Ann Arbor Amtrak Station

Ann Arbor wants to reimagine Depot Street train station with housing above

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After many years of pursuing building a train station in part of Fuller Park in front of the University of Michigan medical complex — a debated concept the federal government didn’t support — city leaders now have their sights set on reimagining the current Amtrak station location on Depot Street.

“And in our view, that reimagination needs to be more than just a center where you buy tickets and get on a train,” City Administrator Milton Dohoney said. “We believe that we need to explore the possibility of potentially housing on top of a reimagined ticket center, and vertical development at that site is certainly physically possible.”
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Meanwhile, Ann Arbor’s modest station on Depot Street, built in the 1980s as a replacement for the historic Michigan Central Railroad depot next door, remains by far the busiest stop on the Amtrak line between Detroit and Chicago, with nearly 144,000 boardings and deboardings in 2023. Described by some as an “Amshack,” it’s a ticket office with a small waiting area.
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Some residents still want the city to consider reclaiming the historic depot next door, a castle-like building with stone walls that served as a grand passenger train station for the city from the late 1800s through much of the 1900s. Since the 1970s, it has been home to the Gandy Dancer restaurant, which some residents have suggested trying to relocate to a new riverfront restaurant space planned a stone’s throw away at the Broadway Park West site now under development.
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