diff --git a/src/dotnet/commands/dotnet-migrate/MigrateCommand.cs b/src/dotnet/commands/dotnet-migrate/MigrateCommand.cs
index 4b2132663..e9ddebe68 100644
--- a/src/dotnet/commands/dotnet-migrate/MigrateCommand.cs
+++ b/src/dotnet/commands/dotnet-migrate/MigrateCommand.cs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
 using Microsoft.Build.Construction;
+using Microsoft.Build.Evaluation;
 using Microsoft.DotNet.Cli.Utils;
 using Microsoft.DotNet.ProjectJsonMigration;
 using Microsoft.DotNet.Internal.ProjectModel;
@@ -49,7 +50,9 @@ namespace Microsoft.DotNet.Tools.Migrate
             var projectsToMigrate = GetProjectsToMigrate(_projectArg);
 
             var msBuildTemplate = _templateFile != null ?
-                ProjectRootElement.TryOpen(_templateFile) : _temporaryDotnetNewProject.MSBuildProject;
+                ProjectRootElement.Open(_templateFile,
+                    ProjectCollection.GlobalProjectCollection,
+                    preserveFormatting: true) : _temporaryDotnetNewProject.MSBuildProject;
             
             var sdkVersion = _sdkVersion ?? _temporaryDotnetNewProject.MSBuildProject.GetSdkVersion();
 
@@ -188,7 +191,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.DotNet.Tools.Migrate
         {
             IEnumerable<string> projects = null;
 
-            if (projectArg.EndsWith(Project.FileName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+            if (projectArg.EndsWith(ProjectModel.Project.FileName, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
             {
                 projects = Enumerable.Repeat(projectArg, 1);
             }
@@ -202,7 +205,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.DotNet.Tools.Migrate
             }
             else if (Directory.Exists(projectArg))
             {
-                projects = Directory.EnumerateFiles(projectArg, Project.FileName, SearchOption.AllDirectories);
+                projects = Directory.EnumerateFiles(projectArg, ProjectModel.Project.FileName, SearchOption.AllDirectories);
                 if (!projects.Any())
                 {
                     throw new Exception($"No project.json file found in '{projectArg}'");
diff --git a/src/dotnet/commands/dotnet-migrate/TemporaryDotnetNewTemplateProject.cs b/src/dotnet/commands/dotnet-migrate/TemporaryDotnetNewTemplateProject.cs
index 124e0e81a..d14b9e627 100644
--- a/src/dotnet/commands/dotnet-migrate/TemporaryDotnetNewTemplateProject.cs
+++ b/src/dotnet/commands/dotnet-migrate/TemporaryDotnetNewTemplateProject.cs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
 using Microsoft.DotNet.ProjectJsonMigration;
+using Microsoft.Build.Evaluation;
 
 namespace Microsoft.DotNet.Tools.Migrate
 {
@@ -52,7 +53,9 @@ namespace Microsoft.DotNet.Tools.Migrate
             var templateProjPath = Path.Combine(temporaryDotnetNewMSBuildDirectory,
                 c_temporaryDotnetNewMSBuildProjectName + ".csproj");
 
-            return ProjectRootElement.Open(templateProjPath);
+            return ProjectRootElement.Open(templateProjPath,
+                ProjectCollection.GlobalProjectCollection,
+                preserveFormatting: true);
         }
 
         private void RunCommand(string commandToExecute, IEnumerable<string> args, string workingDirectory)
diff --git a/test/dotnet-migrate.Tests/GivenThatIWantToMigrateTestApps.cs b/test/dotnet-migrate.Tests/GivenThatIWantToMigrateTestApps.cs
index 5b7a78b6c..4236911c9 100644
--- a/test/dotnet-migrate.Tests/GivenThatIWantToMigrateTestApps.cs
+++ b/test/dotnet-migrate.Tests/GivenThatIWantToMigrateTestApps.cs
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ namespace Microsoft.DotNet.Migration.Tests
         [InlineData("TestAppWithRuntimeOptions")]
         [InlineData("TestAppWithContents")]
         [InlineData("AppWithAssemblyInfo")]
-        public void It_migrates_apps(string projectName)
+        public void It_migrates_apps_and_puts_newline_at_end_of_file(string projectName)
         {
             var projectDirectory = TestAssetsManager.CreateTestInstance(projectName, identifier: projectName)
                                                     .WithLockFiles()
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ namespace Microsoft.DotNet.Migration.Tests
             outputsIdentical.Should().BeTrue();
 
             VerifyAllMSBuildOutputsRunnable(projectDirectory);
+
+            var outputCsProj = Path.Combine(projectDirectory, projectName + ".csproj");
+            var csproj = File.ReadAllText(outputCsProj);
+            Console.WriteLine(csproj);
+            csproj.EndsWith(Environment.NewLine).Should().Be(true);
         }
 
         [Fact]