Cadillac Center | |||||||||||
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| Location | 110 Gratiot Avenue Detroit, Michigan 48226 United States | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°20′01″N83°02′46″W / 42.33374°N 83.04613°W /42.33374; -83.04613 | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Detroit Transportation Corporation | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Opened | July 31, 1987 | ||||||||||
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Cadillac Center station is aDetroit People Mover station indowntownDetroit,Michigan. It is located at the intersection ofGratiot Avenue and Library Street, beneath theOne Campus Martius parking garage. It is named for the Cadillac Center, a shopping center proposed for construction nearby in the 1980s, but never built.
Cadillac Center is the nearest People Mover station toCampus Martius Park,Hudson's Detroit, One Campus Martius, and the Skillman Branch of theDetroit Public Library.[1][2] It is located one block from theCampus MartiusQLine station, though this is rarely officially signed as a transfer.
The station's platform and stairwell are adorned with a large tile mosaic,In Honor of Mary Chase Stratton, created by Diana Pancioli ofPewabic Pottery. 26,000 of the tiles used were handmade by Pewabic in the 1930s for a never-builtStroh Brewery Company facility; they were preserved by the Stroh family until the 1980s, when they were donated to the Detroit People Mover Art Commission for use in the station's mosaic.[3][4]
Also on the stairwell's wall isIn Memory of Madame de la Mothe Cadillac, a bronze tablet created by Italian sculptorCarlo Romanelli in 1901, on permanent loan from theDetroit Institute of Arts since the station's opening.[4]
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