Group makes final push to save historic Ford buildings

A local economic and community development group is making a final push to turn a historic car plant into an automotive attraction center.

The Woodward Avenue Action Association, beginning today, will try to crowd-source the $125,000 needed to purchase two former Ford Motor Co. buildings in Highland Park. The association wants to use the buildings as a central location where tourists and automotive enthusiasts can learn and seek information about auto-related activities in the Metro Detroit area.

“We’ve not been very good at telling our own story,” said Deborah Schutt, interim director of the Woodward Avenue Action Association, said of the automotive industry. “So we’ve decided, let’s pull everything together and tell our story.”