Opportunity, we just recently learned that the City of Pontiac would receive up to $37.7 million, as a result of the work and efforts of Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence and the Biden Administration. This news comes with a great Opportunity, yes, an Opportunity for our city, our local leaders, and our residents. Opportunities do not always come to us, nor do they always arrive at the right time for us or our City of Pontiac; Therefore, we should welcome this great Opportunity and recognize this is the right time.

This should galvanize our coming together to get alone, work together, and do what is right and good for our city and its residents. We now have the Opportunity to show what working together can do and what is right for our city's future.  

We have this Opportunity to use these funds to benefit and better serve our residents and our city. Now, if we can all just get along and do something positive and great for our City, we will make history, so can we come together – Not Me, Not You, but US Together for Pontiac?

A funny thing about Opportunity you must grab it when it comes to you for when it turns away; all you have is I woulda, shoulda, coulda. Let’s not miss this Great Opportunity.

Join us and let's promote the positive of the Great City of Pontiac!

Sincerely,

Chairman

250 W. Pike St., Pontiac, MI. 48341

Email: admin@pontiactransportationmuseum.org

Starting in the 19th century, the transportation industry became the pulse of Pontiac, MI.  This community saw decades of phenomenal “boom” growth, some economic “down” cycles, huge industrialization, and recently a newly re-emerging downtown “avant-garde” culture.  The non-profit Pontiac Transportation Museum intends to tell this remarkable story, but also has a role in energizing community development and re-vitalization.  

Situated in a historic neighborhood location, the museum is well-equipped to reach out to the Pontiac schools and community. Intended museum activities include science, technology, engineering, art, and math outreach to engage youth with perspective of how those technical capabilities historically grew their own community. As a drawing card for city visitors, the Museum will support local economic development – hotels and restaurants are typical beneficiaries of a healthy museum culture.  

One of America’s deepest legacies of transportation history, innovation, and accomplishment is in the community of Pontiac, Michigan. While nearby Detroit is known as “The Motor City,” here in Pontiac during the late 19th and early 20th centuries some of the nation’s most successful manufacturers of horse-drawn buggies and carriages evolved into the earliest car and truck companies.

Among the dozens of such companies with local roots, two of the largest ultimately became General Motors’ renowned Pontiac Motor Division and GMC Truck and Coach.

To celebrate the heritage and remarkable achievements of these many enterprises, the Pontiac Transportation Museum is being created to showcase examples of the cars, trucks, and other vehicles designed or built here – and the culture that truly changed the nation and the world.

The Museum will also honor the industrialization of this community and the many people whose work inspired these efforts. Through the museum’s existing and growing collections we will endeavor—through displays, teaching, and community programs—to help educate and inspire young people to chart their own destiny in an increasingly technical world.

The Pontiac Transportation Museum is an active member of MotorCities National Heritage Area.  They have been of substantial value in helping our start-up and in particular helping fund our recent website re-development!