Why are they in such a hurray to demolish a landmark instead of the abandon buildings and houses by elementary schools? They must be getting some kind of kickback when the auction rolls around. Gotta love Kwame.

im just sayin they are trying to demolish this first above vacant buildings that kids get raped in while walking to school. Did they teach that in your urban class? There are other downtown properties that need to be razed before this one.

A landmark...you've got to be kidding. Have you seen how bad that stadium looks? It's so out of place in the revitilization efforts going on downtown its not even funny. If they tear it down it will open up a lot of viable real estate for businesses to come in down there. It looks great around the new stadiums and they are trying to continue working out from there. As for the other issues, you can't clean up the city in a day...they have to start somewhere and whats wrong with trying to clean up the business district? If they can do that then it will bring in better jobs and individual people will be more willing to relocate to the Motor City and some of the other problems will be taken care of by real estate developers and individual citizens. Its a long complicated process to clean up a city like Detroit, but in my opinion they are going about fairly well by trying to attract new commercial ventures downtown and allowing them to assist the city in other clean up efforts around town.


As I said the city has issues, but they have to start somewhere...maybe there are other properties that need to be torn down more, but they don't have the visibility of Tiger Stadium. It's unfortunate what's happened to this city, but there's no quick fix. I'm not saying that they are doing a perfect job here or anything, but at least they are doing something.... Unless you're in a postition to know all that goes into the decision how do you know this isn't the best thing to do? I don't claim to know everything about this situation, but from what I've seen downtown Detroit has gotten better in the last few years but there is still a lot of work to be done there. Most cities would of torn down the old stadium during the offseason before the new one opened...not wait a few years like they've done.

A hurry? Tigger Stadium closed after the 1999 season. The Kitties moved into Comerica in, ta-dah!, 2000. I'd hardly call farting around for eight years "in a hurry" even for a notoriously corrupt bureaucracy.

The City of Detroit has dillydallied the last 8 years.

As much as I love Tiger Stadium, it is truly an eyesore and needs to be torn down. Part of the problem is that some tree hugging hippie group has delayed whatever they have sumbitted.

I've been saying for years, tear it down and make it into a nieghborhood park. Keep the infield intact, and may be a few shops.