The giant Rouge Industrial Complex renovation and expansion. The complex opened in 1916. Ford recently hired an architect to redesign the gritty complex into an industrial campus. The carmaker might even reopen the complex to public tours, which once drew up to 2 million visitors a year in the 1960s. We don't view this as environmental philanthropy.
Some obstacles remain.
Other communities face the same problem. Still, many say the Rouge River Gateway Partnership, as the cleanup is known, could lead the way for other water redevelopment efforts.