Ford Motor spent more than a century expanding operations throughout metro Detroit. Now, in the wake of Covid-19, new CEO Jim Farley and Executive Chairman Bill Ford are accelerating a planned consolidation of Ford’s facilities in the region, as the company holds off bringing its salaried people back to the office until July and reconfigures their workspaces.
But, at the same time, Ford’s leaders just recommitted the company to completing a new, $750 million technology complex in downtown Detroit that assumes digitally talented millennials and Gen Z-ers will flock to work cheek-by-jowl on a hip new campus centered around the
