Ford hails Detroit a new ‘city of possibility’; residents hopeful, sceptical

Bill Ford, executive chairman of Ford Motor Co., speaks during an event at the Michigan Central Station in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, U.S., on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Ford will redevelop the former train depot as part of a new downtown campus for autonomous and electric vehicle businesses. Photographer: Jeff Kowalsky/Bloomberg

DETROIT: As Ford Motor Co celebrated its return to Detroit with dignitaries and grand plans for the new economy and the future of transportation at Michigan Central Station in Corktown, Alondra Alvarez worried. 

She slipped into the train station during a media huddle on June 19 and approached Bill Ford, the great-grandson of Henry Ford, American industrial royalty. She had a question.