As Ford Motor Co. prepares to vacate its employees from the existing world headquarters on Michigan Avenue to move to a new world headquarters building about a mile away , the automaker continues to hold many properties in Dearborn and metro Detroit and it has plans for the site that holds the current world headquarters.

Ford announced on Sept. 15 it was moving its world headquarters, which holds about 2,000 employees, from Michigan Avenue to an area near the Henry Ford Museum. Ford has been building a new innovation center at the area of Oakwood Boulevard and Village Road, which once held its Product Development Center. The new building will be the automaker's new Ford World Headquarters when it dedicates it in November.

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