This year’s Detroit North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) has been canceled but will return in June 2021.
Mich. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says the TCF Center (formerly Cobo Center), which normally anchors the show, is to be converted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers into a 900-bed emergency hospital to help handle Michigan’s rising number of COVID-19 victims.
The Corps also is evaluating other sites in Michigan to become temporary care facilities. The field hospitals are expected to operate for roughly six months during the crisis.
“There is nothing more important to us than the health, safety and well-being of the citizens of Detroit and Michigan,” says NAIAS Executive Director Rod Alberts. “We support the city and state’s mission to help ...READ MORE