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What a wine town does when the train stops

44 min · A depot, a vineyard, and a county commission: how one Michigan town rebuilt its tasting room without sanding off its history.

The train no longer stops in Vintner’s Row. The building still does. We talk about adaptive reuse, limestone, and the politics of restoring something that everyone has an opinion about.

Guest: Priya Okafor, Vintner’s Row.

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