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July 20, 2007

T-Day set for next Wednesday

The Detroit city council, after again putting off a vote on the fate of Tiger Stadium on Wednesday, now says it will debate the matter on Monday and then vote next Wednesday. Maybe.

The Detroit Free Press editorial board didn't wait, though, to issue its own recommendations, saying that even if Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's condo plan seems increasingly dubious, that shouldn't stop the city from tearing the ballpark down: "Indeed, an empty lot at The Corner would be a more enticing development prospect than the stadium." The Freep editors go on to write that Cleveland's Municipal Stadium "came down almost instantaneously when Jacobs Field opened" (it actually stayed around for three more years while the Browns played there) and "it's now the site of the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame" (actually it was demolished to make way for the Browns' new stadium; the Rock n' Roll Hall is down the road a bit, and opened while the stadium was still standing).

If FoS readers want to chime in with their own recommendations, councilmembers' e-mail addresses are all available on the council website.

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