Ford employees and mobility tenants are to begin occupying the Book Depository building this summer.
A block away at the corner of Bagley and Wabash streets, a 1,250-space parking deck is set to be complete by the end of the second quarter. Last fall, Ford sold the parking deck to a joint venture called Corktown Mobility Hub LLC owned by businessmen Howard Luckoff and Jim Ketai and the Rakolta family.
The Book Depository building, a classic Kahn-designed fortress of concrete and steel, has been reimagined as a collaboration space with wide-open floor plates and limited offices for tenants and Ford employees, Bardelli said.
“This building is really meant to be this collaborative space where small startups, incubator type of space where we can bring different companies that have thoughts around mobility — but aren’t big enough yet — that can come and collaborate and work in this building,” Bardelli told reporters.
