remains of Tiger Stadium will be leveled (Detroit, Pontiac: 2009, neighborhood)

[Dexterguy]

I don't have any source, I heard it on WJR today.

Council voted to demolish the remaining part of Tiger Stadium still standing. The only question now is, who's interested in building there?

At least it's a fresh start for the neighborhood of Corktown, an area that has had to go through enough with this battle the last ten years.

Tiger Stadium memories although will never be forgotten!

[Dexterguy]

Originally Posted by Dexterguy

I don't have any source, I heard it on WJR today.

Council voted to demolish the remaining part of Tiger Stadium still standing. The only question now is, who's interested in building there?

At least it's a fresh start for the neighborhood of Corktown, an area that has had to go through enough with this battle the last ten years.

Tiger Stadium memories although will never be forgotten!

Here is the article from the Detroit News:
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090...-Tiger-Stadium

It was actually the Detroit Economic Growth Corp. that voted, not council. Sorry for the mistake.

[Shrewsbury Road]

An educational and recreational facility, not exactly what I would have in mind.

[and the]

I try to reign in the nostalgia whenever possible, but there is no way any stadium in Detroit will capture the essense of the "real" Tiger Stadium or Briggs Stadium or Navin Field for the next hundred years at least. No way. When I was a kid, and even young adult, baseball in Detroit was not downtown. It was west side, Michigan and Trumbull in the bleachers. The most I remember paying when I couldn't sneak in was $7.00. Slip the usher a few and you had box seats. It was about bar owners, not major league franchise owners. It was about parking on someone's front lawn for five bucks, by Most Holy Trinity, not the team owner's lot for ten or twenty. I saw the LIONS play at Tiger stadium and I'm not that old. If you got lucky, you could see Billy Martin kick someone's ass or see someone kick his ass.

Now you can go to a baseball place named for a corporate sponsor with fake tigers and carnival rides. What a bunch of crap. Back then the GTO's you saw with the Tiger tails coming out of the trunks were made in America. When they built the last ball park, they were made in Australia, and now Pontiac is nothing more than a dead Indian.

Like Bill Bonds said: "...........turn out the lights."

[Dwatted Wabbit]

Originally Posted by and the

I try to reign in the nostalgia whenever possible, but there is no way any stadium in Detroit will capture the essense of the "real" Tiger Stadium or Briggs Stadium or Navin Field for the next hundred years at least. No way. When I was a kid, and even young adult, baseball in Detroit was not downtown. It was west side, Michigan and Trumbull in the bleachers. The most I remember paying when I couldn't sneak in was $7.00. Slip the usher a few and you had box seats. It was about bar owners, not major league franchise owners. It was about parking on someone's front lawn for five bucks, by Most Holy Trinity, not the team owner's lot for ten or twenty. I saw the LIONS play at Tiger stadium and I'm not that old. If you got lucky, you could see Billy Martin kick someone's ass or see someone kick his ass.

Now you can go to a baseball place named for a corporate sponsor with fake tigers and carnival rides. What a bunch of crap. Back then the GTO's you saw with the Tiger tails coming out of the trunks were made in America. When they built the last ball park, they were made in Australia, and now Pontiac is nothing more than a dead Indian.

Like Bill Bonds said: "...........turn out the lights."

Arrrrrr!!

Thanks for the cheerful reminder of Detroit's incredible progress these last 40 years!

Arrrrrrr!!!!

[and the]

Sorry......Just drove by the old Reedy's......I guess change is inevitable.....But between the change at Reedy's and the change at Michigan and Trumbull....Oy......

[Coldjensens]

I do nto understand. Why does it cost more moeny to just let it sit there? Scrap is way down right now. If they wait for it to go back up, they can offset the costs and that would give the conservancy more time. I do not understand Detroit's government's obsession with empty rubble filled and/or overgrown lots. Nothing is planned there, they just want another empty lot. Is that a cost savings?

[Dexterguy]

It looks like your going to have to drive all the way to Boston just to see a real and original baseball stadium. Fenway Park is a loner now.