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| location = 3687 [[Fort Street (Wyandotte, Michigan)|Fort Street]]<br/>[[Wyandotte, Michigan|Wyandotte]], [[Michigan]]
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'''3687 Fort Street''' is a vacant commercial building at the northeast corner of [[Fort Street (Wyandotte, Michigan)|Fort Street]] and [[Orchard Street (Wyandotte, Michigan)|Orchard Street]] in [[Wyandotte, Michigan|Wyandotte]], [[Michigan]]. Built to house a [[Goebel Brewing Company]] warehouse in 1949, it was later repurposed into a truck rental agency before becoming a bus garage and subsequently housed several automotive repair shops after a stint as a repossessed car lot.
==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>
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