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Detroit People Mover stationMillender Center
A station built into the fifth floor of a mixed-use complex, with skybridges to the Renaissance Center and city hall.
- Code
- MC
- Opened
- July 31, 1987
- Boardings 2024
- 73,169 (7th)
- Location
- the building’s 5th floor
01 / Story
The station’s story
The Millender Center, an apartment, hotel and retail complex, rose together with the People Mover; its developer billed it as the tallest pre-cast concrete structure in the United States. The station occupies its fifth floor, with lifts and escalators down to the street. A skybridge links it to the Renaissance Center, which has its own station, and another to a staff entrance of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center (the public enters city hall from the street).
It was among the first six stations of the May 20, 2022 restart. Colour-changing LED lights were added to the platform in 2010. Alvin Loving Jr.’s mural spans from the station lobby into the building’s fifth-floor atrium. When the system was split in 1999 it was a terminus of the “red line”, and in 2014–2015, while Grand Circus Park was rebuilt, riders transferred here between the two halves of the line.
From 8 p.m. the street entrance on Randolph Street and the second-level skybridge lock, though you can still leave the station.
- A fifth-floor station
- Alvin Loving Jr.’s “Detroit New Morning”
- Skybridge to the Renaissance Center
- The tunnel bus to Canada leaves nearby
02 / From the window
What you see from the car
To the east the Renaissance Center’s seven glass cylinders fill the view, to the south the river and the Windsor shore. The tunnel entrance, where the Linq bus leaves for Canada, is a few steps away.
03 / Art in the Stations
Art at this station
Alvin D. Loving Jr. · 1987
Detroit New Morning
painted glazed tile, 5,000 pieces
Rain, lightning, rainbows, silver-lined clouds and sunrise, a window on the world in 5,000 tiles. The Guggenheim Fellow worked at Pewabic; the mural was so large he was rolled across it on a scaffold for the final touches.
04 / Timeline
Station timeline
Opens in the new Millender Center
With Alvin Loving Jr.’s mural.
Terminus of the “red line”
During split operation after the Hudson’s implosion.
LED lights
Colour-changing platform lighting.
Among the first six to reopen
The station is part of the loop today; today’s departures are shown above, per timetable.
05 / Curiosities
Curiosities
For the finishing touches Loving was rolled across the tiles laid out on the floor, lying on a scaffold.
The mural was funded jointly by the developers (Forest City Enterprises and Millender Center Associates), the City of Detroit and the People Mover Art Commission.
A closer look
Sources & fact check · Checked: 2026-09-25
Every figure is compiled from the sources below, including the DTC’s official pages, board minutes and its 2025–2026 planning documents. Where sources differ, we give both. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, freely licensed and credited per author.
06 / Nearby
A short walk away
Places, restaurants and venues from our guide, with straight-line distance and an estimated walking time.
- 1 min walk · 28 mApplebee's & IHOP Detroit DowntownA combined Applebee's and IHOP in the Millender Center: pancakes in the morning, burgers and a beer at night, steps from the Riverwalk.
- 1 min walk · 28 mCosta D'Oro JewelersA downtown jeweler and goldsmith on Jefferson: custom pieces, diamonds, appraisals and jewelry and watch repair.
1 min walk · 57 mCourtyard by Marriott Detroit DowntownA 260-room Courtyard in the Millender Center on Jefferson Avenue: a skybridge takes you into the RenCen, and there's a People Mover station in the building.- 1 min walk · 65 mBiddle HouseMichigan's largest hotel when it opened in 1851 at Jefferson Avenue and Randolph Street; it closed in the early 1890s and was gone by 1917.
- 1 min walk · 91 mDuMouchellesDetroit's family-run auction house since 1927, in an Albert Kahn building on Jefferson: monthly sales of fine art, jewelry and estates.
- 2 min walk · 146 mCity Market DetroitDowntown's neighborhood grocery on Brush Street, open until 2 AM daily, with a deli, prepared foods, meats and wine, beer and spirits.
- 3 min walk · 180 mAndiamo Pizza PieAndiamo's former pizza counter in the Renaissance Center food court, which had fully emptied out by November 2025.
3 min walk · 180 mFUELLThe Detroit Marriott's restaurant inside the RenCen: breakfast through late-night cocktails, with big windows facing the Riverwalk.
3 min walk · 190 mDetroit-Windsor TunnelUnder-the-river car tunnel linking downtown Detroit and downtown Windsor since 1930; a few minutes and you're in Canada.
Around the station
- Coleman A. Young Municipal Center 2 min
City hall, with the Spirit of Detroit outside.
- Mariners’ Church 3 min
The 1849 sailors’ church sung about by Gordon Lightfoot.
- Detroit–Windsor Tunnel 2 min
The 1930 international road tunnel.
- Cadillac Square 5 min
Home of winter markets and summer events.
07 / Events
Events near this station
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