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A train approaching Millender Center station (2022)
42-BRT · CC BY-SA 4.0

Places / People Mover / Stop 7 of 13

Detroit People Mover stationMillender Center

A station built into the fifth floor of a mixed-use complex, with skybridges to the Renaissance Center and city hall.

Next car: 12:26
Code
MC
Opened
July 31, 1987
Boardings 2024
73,169 (7th)
Location
the building’s 5th floor

01 / Story

The station’s story

The Millender Center, a residential, hotel and office complex, rose together with the People Mover; the press of the day called it the world’s tallest prefabricated building. The station occupies its fifth floor, with lifts and escalators down to the street. A skybridge links it to the Renaissance Center, which has its own station, and another to a staff entrance of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center (the public enters city hall from the street).

It was among the first six stations of the May 20, 2022 restart. Colour-changing LED lights were added to the platform in 2010. Alvin Loving Jr.’s mural spans from the station lobby into the building’s fifth-floor atrium. When the system was split in 1999 it was a terminus of the “red line”, and in 2014–2015, while Grand Circus Park was rebuilt, riders transferred here between the two halves of the line.

From 8 p.m. the street entrance on Randolph Street and the second-level skybridge lock, though you can still leave the station.

  1. A fifth-floor station
  2. Alvin Loving Jr.’s “Detroit New Morning”
  3. Skybridge to the Renaissance Center
  4. The tunnel bus to Canada leaves nearby

02 / From the window

What you see from the car

To the east the Renaissance Center’s seven glass cylinders fill the view, to the south the river and the Windsor shore. The tunnel entrance, where the Linq bus leaves for Canada, is a few steps away.

03 / Art in the Stations

Art at this station

  • Alvin D. Loving Jr. · 1987

    Detroit New Morning

    painted glazed tile, 5,000 pieces

    Rain, lightning, rainbows, silver-lined clouds and sunrise, a window on the world in 5,000 tiles. The Guggenheim Fellow worked at Pewabic; the mural was so large he was rolled across it on a scaffold for the final touches.

04 / Timeline

Station timeline

  1. Opens in the new Millender Center

    With Alvin Loving Jr.’s mural.

  2. Terminus of the “red line”

    During split operation after the Hudson’s implosion.

  3. LED lights

    Colour-changing platform lighting.

  4. Among the first six to reopen

  5. The station is part of the loop today; today’s departures are shown above, per timetable.

05 / Curiosities

Curiosities

  • For the finishing touches Loving was rolled across the tiles laid out on the floor, lying on a scaffold.

  • The mural was funded by the building’s developers, Forest City Enterprises and Millender Center Associates.

Millender Center’s enclosed glass platform (2022)
42-BRT · CC BY-SA 4.0
A train at Millender Center station (2016)
Mx. Granger · CC0
Sources & fact check · Checked: 2026-09-25

Every figure is compiled from the sources below, including the DTC’s official pages, board minutes and its 2025–2026 planning documents. Where sources differ, we give both. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, freely licensed and credited per author.

06 / Nearby

A short walk away

Places, restaurants and venues from our guide, with straight-line distance and an estimated walking time.

Around the station

  • Coleman A. Young Municipal Center 2 min

    City hall, with the Spirit of Detroit outside.

  • Mariners’ Church 3 min

    The 1849 sailors’ church sung about by Gordon Lightfoot.

  • Detroit–Windsor Tunnel 2 min

    The 1930 international road tunnel.

  • Cadillac Square 5 min

    Home of winter markets and summer events.

07 / Events

Events near this station

Upcoming events at nearby venues, from our event guide.

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