Consider this a spot quiz with no wrong answer.
We sat up and stared in surprise at these two shots posted Thursday night on Facebook by the crusaders at the Michigan Central Station Preservation Society. Its post says: "MCS is lit up like a birthday cake tonight!"
"MCS is lit up like a birthday cake tonight," posts the Michigan Central Station Preservation Society with these photos on its Facebook page.
We also applaud the bright sight -- obviously an improvement from the long era of missing windows and a dark hulk.
"It looks so wonderful," Rick Beall says in one of nearly three dozen posts under the society's photos. "It is the first time in 40 years I ever saw it lit. Amazing."
From West Bloomfield, Brittany Walls comments: "It's nice to see this city come alive again."
Well, yes . . . but the bulbs and spotlights illuminate a hulking, vacant relic with no current redevelopment prospects.
So we come to the spot quiz:
We're not suggesting lights are bad, mind you. And we admire the preservationists' glass-half-full dedication "to explore the ways in which the station can again become a representation of the rise of Detroit," as their mission statement proclaims.
We just wonder if you also curb your enthusiasm about what the night lights represent -- a meaningful "representation of the rise of Detroit" or something akin to lipstick on a pig?
