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{{Infobox building
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| image = File:3687 Fort Street Wyandotte MI 2020.JPG
▲| building_type = Automotive repair shop
| location = 3687 [[Fort Street (Wyandotte, Michigan)|Fort Street]]<br/>[[Wyandotte, Michigan|Wyandotte]], [[Michigan]]
| start_date = 1949
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'''3687 Fort Street''' is
==History==
The building was originally built in 1949 to house a distribution warehouse for the [[Goebel Brewing Company]] of [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]]. The warehouse remained active into at least 1956, though
[[Great Lakes Transit Corporation]], the public transit provider in the city of Wyandotte, soon acquired the building for use as a bus garage, replacing an older garage at [[Biddle Avenue (Wyandotte, Michigan)|Biddle Avenue]] and [[Pennsylvania Road (Wyandotte, Michigan)|Pennsylvania Road]]. The garage was transferred to the [[Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority]] (SEMTA) upon its acquisition of Great Lakes Transit on April 1, 1974, though SEMTA reassigned what it had renamed the Wyandotte Terminal into its [[Metropolitan Transit (Dearborn, Michigan)|Metropolitan Transit]] division (for the past few years, Metropolitan had already operated bus routes along the portion of Fort Street that this building is located on that were continued by SEMTA).<ref>Motor Coach Age, October-December 2003, page 5.</ref> SEMTA closed the Wyandotte Terminal in 1981, replacing it with a smaller, leased garage at [[13400 Reeck Road (Southgate, Michigan)|13400 Reeck Road]] in [[Southgate, Michigan|Southgate]].<ref>Motor Coach Age, October-December 2003, page 14.</ref>
After the Wyandotte Terminal's closure, the property's parking lot was used to store repossessed cars<ref>[https://archive.org/details/Romulus081981/page/n25/mode/2up Sale listing], [[Romulus Roman]], August 5 & 6, 1981, page C-4.</ref> before the building began housing various auto repair shops. In 1995 and 1996, Auto One was located in the building.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/Romulus061995/06-22-1995#page/n21/mode/2up CelluarOne advertisement], [[Romulus Roman]], June 22, 1995, page C-7.</ref><ref>[https://freep.newspapers.com/image/99974987/ Job listing], [[Detroit Free Press]], March 31, 1996, page 78.</ref> The next tenant, People's Choice Auto Maintenance & Repair, closed in 2006. By 2011, All American Auto Clinic had opened in the building. A [[Lincoln Park, Michigan|Lincoln Park]] man employed at the shop parked his 2005 Chevrolet vehicle at about 7 a.m. on May 3, 2012, and was notified by a co-worker that its front passenger’s window was broken.<ref>Kasuba, Jim. [https://www.thenewsherald.com/news/police_fire/wyandotte-off-the-blotter/article_98540121-6816-58a7-8d94-3af4d6a0f6e8.html "WYANDOTTE: Off the blotter"], [[The News-Herald (Southgate, Michigan)|The News-Herald]], May 11, 2012.</ref> All American Auto Clinic closed in 2014. Downriver Auto Works opened at this address on June 25, 2016, though All American Auto Clinic's signs were left untouched.
==References==
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[[Category:Buildings on Fort Street (Wyandotte, Michigan)]]
[[Category:Buildings on Orchard Street (Wyandotte, Michigan)]]
[[Category:Car dealerships in Wyandotte, Michigan]]
[[Category:Automotive repair shops in Wyandotte, Michigan]]
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