Eureka! There Is Hope for Shuttered Detroit Science Center

The new Michigan Science Center is several steps closer to reality, according to Daniel Howes of the Detroit News.

He reports the newly renamed center has  "significantly more" than $2.5 million in funding commitments, and the center's new board is set to meet Monday to consider dates for reopening.

Financial troubles forced its predecessor, the Detroit Science Center, to close, oust its president and deprive as many as 150,000 students their annual visits.

The science center "has way more than enough commitments," board chairman Tom Stephens, a retired vice chairman of General Motors Co., said in an interview Thursday.