Beloved East Side Doughnut Shop Is Coming Soon to Michigan Central Station #DetroitFood
Yellow Light Coffee & Donuts will be the first retail tenant within the iconic train station since 1988.
The reopening of Michigan Central Station has been one of Detroit’s most anticipated highlights of 2024. Following months of self-guided tours of the revitalized site that attracted some 167,000 visitors since its official unveiling on June 6, 2024, Michigan Central is ready to welcome its first official food and drink retail tenant since the building’s closure in 1988.
Later this year, Yellow Light Coffee & Donuts — the beloved coffee roaster and doughnut shop in the city’s Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood — will open off of the station’s east entrance within the site’s historic retail arcade, says a media release distributed to journalists on Tuesday, September 17. Yellow Light opened as a drive-thru business in early 2020, offering east siders a variety of moist, cake-y doughnuts in flavors like blueberry, key lime, and cherry almond, as well as coffee roasted in-house, and a selection of breakfast biscuits. The cafe was co-founded by Christine and Jacques Driscoll of In-Laws Hospitality and Niko Dimitrijevic. The Driscolls are already familiar faces in the Corktown and Southwest Detroit areas, having founded Green Dot Stables and Johnny Noodle King more than a decade ago.
“Offering our in-house roasted coffee, scratch-made doughnuts and biscuit sandwiches to Corktown and Southwest is beyond exciting for our growth in Detroit,” said Christine Driscoll in a written statement in the media release. “We’re also humbled that we will be part of this newest chapter in The Station’s history starting this fall.”
Details about what specifically will be available at the new location weren’t immediately released, however, the space will offer take-out and dine-in options daily and is currently hiring. Those interested in learning more about opportunities can send their resumes to hr@inlawshospitality.com.
In addition to the new cafe, Michigan Central is also working with Detroit History Tours offer private individual and group guided tours to offer guests behind-the-scenes access to the site. Tickets will be required and options are available for individual and private group tours for larger groups.
Following Michigan Central’s grand reopening celebration, the station opened its doors to the public, attracting more than 167,000 visitors each weekend over the summer, which, according to the media release, included a rotating selection of 25 food trucks that reported more than $90,000 in sales.
Ford Motor Company spent nearly $1 billion and the past six years renovating the once long-neglected train station, and for many, its rebirth has been symbolic of the Motor City’s rebound over the past several years. In June 2023, the city unveiled the $6 million renovation of neighboring Roosevelt Park, featuring lush landscaping, walking paths, benches, and swings. Later in the fall of 2023, officials announced the launch of the country’s first wireless-charging public road, installed on a quarter-mile stretch of 14th Street. Plans for the area, according to the Detroit News, also include the construction of a new soccer stadium for the Detroit City FC on the site of the abandoned Southwest Detroit Hospital.
from Eater Detroit - All
Post a Comment