Field of Schemes: Detroit threatens Tiger Stadium (again)

June 24, 2003

Detroit threatens Tiger Stadium (again)

After two complete rounds of "requests for proposals" on what to do with Tiger Stadium, four years after the Tigers abandoned it for Comerica Park, the city of Detroit has a new idea: tear it down and build a giant retail store. For the Navin Field Consortium, a group that had quietly submitted a proposal to return Tiger Stadium to its earlier dimensions and use it as a minor-league ballpark, the news was especially exasperating. "If a big box retailer is interested in Detroit, there are many potential sites to choose from, none of which has an 8-1/2 acre historic steel and concrete baseball stadium that has to be torn down first," the consortium's Frank Rashid fumed to FoS News. Rashid further noted that stores aren't exactly clamoring for the site: "Any retailer interested in Michigan and Trumbull could have responded to the city's Request-for-Proposals when we did." Detroit News online readers, meanwhile, have a different idea about what ought to be torn down.

COMMENTS

It's day is done. It was stupid of the City of DEBIT-riot to fork over all that money when the City's infrastructure is only slightly ahead of Bagdad's, but what done is done. Now it is time to put down that fatefull old dog tha most people knew and loved. Hey, an idea, lets tell G.W. Bush it is a Al quida string hold and he will bomb it out of existance.
Posted by: bill notice at September 29, 2005 04:12 PM