February 24, 2010
Red Wings hire ex-Pistons exec to run arena campaign
The Detroit Red Wings new arena drive story continues to inch forward — yesterday's news was that Wings and Tigers owner Mike Ilitch had hired an arena czar to oversee the team's choice of a future home.
The man of the moment: Tom Wilson, the former Pistons president who helped oversee construction of the Palace of Auburn Hills in 1988. Asked whether, like the Palace, a new Red Wings arena would be built with private funds, Wilson replied ("with a laugh," reports the Detroit Free Press): "It won't come from my money. I don't have that much." Of course, neither does Detroit.
Posted by Neil deMause in Detroit Red Wings
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