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Old 05-17-2014, 10:21 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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We should have a state law that says anyone who builds a stadium has to either demolish the old stadium or provide funds for future demolition. I'm afraid the same thing is going to happen to Joe Louis Arena that happened to Tiger Stadium and the Silverdome...and Olympia Stadium.
The city has agreed to demolish JLA. Only thing is that the demolition will be taxpayer funded.

You don't really get a profit from demolition unless you're selling the land or building something that would make up the loss. I doubt many owners are going to pay for the demolition of their own stadiums in any city.
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Old 05-18-2014, 06:47 AM
 
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The city has agreed to demolish JLA. Only thing is that the demolition will be taxpayer funded.

You don't really get a profit from demolition unless you're selling the land or building something that would make up the loss. I doubt many owners are going to pay for the demolition of their own stadiums in any city.
It could be made a condition of any public financing. Personally, I am sick of publicly subsidized sports stadiums. Something is seriously wrong when Bob Ficano has his own luxury suite at Comerica.
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Old 05-18-2014, 09:13 AM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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Note to self:

Never, ever go to an indoor Motocross event.

I had a headache for days.

I still miss Tiger Stadium.
Oh yes, we saw a monster truck rally at the Silverdome and the exhaust got so thick you could barely see the trucks through all the smog! Cough! Hack! Thanks for taking us DAD!!!
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Old 05-18-2014, 09:18 AM
 
Location: Grand Rapids Metro
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It was in a terrible area, and just an ugly drive to and from. I despised going there.
Magellan is right about the bathrooms...wtf?
In the middle of a massive parking lot in the middle of an industrial zone. Who exactly has nostalgia about that dump?

Compared to how Ford Field and Comerica Park blend together? It's awesome at street level. Hard to tell where the stadiums end and the surrounding buildings begin.



I do agree on public subsidies of sports stadiums, but that's not what the original posted article was about.
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Old 05-18-2014, 01:53 PM
 
Location: Houston
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I follow soccer and watched the Detroit Express play there many moons ago. A couple of years ago the Greek guys who bought it unveiled a plan to split the Silverdome into 3 levels and get a Major League Soccer team here to play on the roof level. It was an absolutely crazy idea that people involved in stadium design said would cost $300 million or more. Total publicity stunt.

Remember they bought the place for a ridiculously low price of $500k. It cost them $2 million a year just to keep the roof inflated. Funny how the roof just came down one day. My guess is the purchase was a pure real estate play on their part and they got tired of paying the bills.

Sad to see a place you spent so much time in go down the drain, but Ford Field is far superior.
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Old 05-18-2014, 05:44 PM
 
Location: Metro Detroit Area, Michigan
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I miss coming off the exit ramp of 75 to m59 east and someone spray painted "lions suck" in blue. Perhaps someone can carry this tradition over to 375 getting onto 75 by ford field? Keep the memories alive!
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Old 05-19-2014, 06:03 AM
 
Location: West Michigan
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Yeah, it really isn't that sad or haunting. It's more of a science experiment. "This is what happens when you stop maintaining a building."

If the Lions had abandoned the Detroit area and moved to another city and the dilapidated Silverdome was all that remained, it might be worthy of a dramatic story. But the truth is that everything pretty much turned out for the best.
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Old 05-20-2014, 05:08 AM
 
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The city could have sold the dome many years ago for millions (I forget the actual number) but a couple of the clowns on the city council held up the sale because they didn't get every one of their silly-azz questions answered. Unbelievable. That's the real sad story behind the stadium, a council that has no head for business. What did they end up selling it for, $800,000?
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Old 05-20-2014, 10:13 AM
 
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Sad? No I think not.
This is an ugly building in an industrial waste land made of concrete and plastic, tear it down and find a new use.
I will be sad thinking about all those great winning years of Lions football we had there - NOT
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Old 05-21-2014, 05:00 PM
 
Location: Type 0.73 Kardashev
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Seriously?

We're not talking about Soldier Field or the Rose Bowl here. This was not a historic stadium. It hosted an NFL team for a mere 27 seasons. It was a bland stadium devoid of character. The team that played there was bad to an epic degree, winning one playoff game over that span of time. They had only 8 winning seasons, four of them mediocre 9-7s, a pair of not-much-better 10-6s, and one 12-4 season (when they got crushed in the NFL title game).

It was a purely utilitarian building. The Hoosierdome and the Metrodome saw more drama and talented teams than ever did the Silverdome, and even they're not worthy of so much as a backward glance. And concerts? Domes are lousy locales for music.

The only 'heartbreaking' aspect to this is that politicians and the public have such screwed up priorities that they're willing to foot the bill to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars to build new stadiums for billionaires not because the middle-aged stadiums are no longer functional (they are more than functional) but because said billionaires can't quite squeeze as many millions out of them as they'd like.
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