Ford Motor Co.’s first wave of employees to occupy Michigan Central Station start moving in this week.

Carolina Pluszczynski, COO of Michigan Central, told Crain’s Detroit Business sister publication Automotive News last month that the move-in date is Tuesday, Oct. 8 and “we’ll see a couple of Ford floors.”

The office floors in the former train station are approximately 26,000 square feet each, which would give Ford at least 52,000 square feet to start with, based on data from CoStar Group Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based real estate information service.

Questions were sent to spokespeople for Michigan Central, the name of the broader mobility campus in Corktown that also includes the startup incubator Newlab.

Ford spent about $940 million on the overall 30-acre campus, but has not said specifically how much was spent redeveloping the depot, which sat vacant for 30 years before Ford purchased it from the Moroun family for $90 million in 2018.

It underwent some six years of renovation, reopening to the public in June and bringing in more than 100,000 people.

Last month, Yellow Light Coffee & Donuts became the first publicly announced food and beverage tenant in the building, taking a 650-square-foot space. The building’s first official tenant, Google’s Code Next program, moved into its space in July. The program is an immersive computer science education program focused on helping Black, Latinx and Indigenous high school students pursue careers in tech. 

Other announced tenants include nonprofits: Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan, which moved its headquarters from Farmington Hills to Newlab in the Book Depository building, and is also expected to take space on the fifth floor of the station. The 10 children’s charities that will benefit from a $10 million endowment fund Bill and Lisa Ford are leading with the Children’s Foundation will also take shared collaborative space in the historic building.

Ford is also planning a hotel to take some of the space in the upper floors of the 18-story tower, but details have not yet been made public.

Commonly referred to as Michigan Central, the Michigan Central Center for Mobility and Society is a nonprofit founded by Ford to help program the technology and cultural spaces at the redeveloped train station and neighboring Book Depository building in Corktown. Both properties are owned by Ford and managed by its wholly owned subsidiary, Michigan Central Innovation District LLC.