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The Mezz, a 17,000-square-foot coworking space on the mezzanine of Michigan Central Station, opened in April with Michigan Central memberships starting at $300 a month.
Michigan Central opened The Mezz on the mezzanine level of Michigan Central Station in April, adding a 17,000-square-foot work and collaboration space to a Corktown campus that has kept growing since the station reopened.
The space holds a variety of desks and work setups, quiet zones, 10 private conference rooms, a kitchen, and private wellness rooms, with enterprise-grade technology and views down to the station's ground floor and out to the surrounding neighborhoods. A separate 30-person meeting space was set to open the following month. Michigan Central describes The Mezz as room for hundreds of professionals at once.
Access runs through a Michigan Central membership, which starts at $300 a month. That buys 24/7 access to The Mezz, plus a fitness center with showers and lockers, a digital operations and collaboration platform, and discounted rates on the rentable meeting and event spaces across the district. Members also get exclusive events and introductions to venture capital firms, university programs, and industry partners, the kind of connections that can take years to build through cold outreach.
Membership is not one fixed product. Michigan Central says participants can choose flexible use of workspace, dedicated desks, private offices and studios, lab access, or deeper partnerships such as standing up talent development programs or co-developing innovation and community initiatives.
"The Michigan Central Mezz is a bridge into the broader ecosystem, offering a flexible, modern space to work and collaborate, with direct access to district-wide opportunities, partnerships, and infrastructure," said Carolina Pluszczynski, acting CEO of Michigan Central.
That broader ecosystem is the point. Newlab, a founding partner on the campus, runs out of the former Book Depository across the street and backs startups in mobility, energy, and manufacturing, the companies that need lab benches and prototyping gear rather than a desk and fast Wi-Fi. The Mezz opens a door for everyone else, from software founders to corporate teams looking for an offsite, without requiring the hard-tech profile Newlab was built around.
The campus itself reopened on June 6, 2024, after Ford Motor Company's multi-year restoration returned the long-abandoned building to use. It now houses Ford offices, retail, food, and event venues alongside Newlab and, since April, The Mezz.
More information is available at michigancentral.com.
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