It's Not Completely Over For Tiger Stadium

[Pete Incaviglia]

I know there's a thread out there somewhere, but here's a new update.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3481389

The field, foul poles and flag pole will be saved.

 

[markvid]

And exactly why?
Do the Detroit taxpayers get stuck for maintenance on that one?

 

[slappy4428]

Detroit owns the Stadium and has since a refurb around 1976. The Tigers were supposed to pay for upkeep during and after their stay, but am sure that little thing fell by the wayside once they left.

 

[markvid]

Right, but what happens to that land now? You will have a 500-foot or so grass area with 2 poles. What do you do with it? Little League? High school? Or pay all that money to maintain it so people can just come look at it?
Dumb.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Right, but what happens to that land now? You will have a 500-foot or so grass area with 2 poles. What do you do with it? Little League? High school? Or pay all that money to maintain it so people can just come look at it?
Dumb.

Or turn it into a park, which I would guess is tough to find in the city of Detroit. What's wrong with a little green space?

 

[slappy4428]

Right, but what happens to that land now? You will have a 500-foot or so grass area with 2 poles. What do you do with it? Little League? High school? Or pay all that money to maintain it so people can just come look at it?

People will come...

 

[Armchair_QB]

Right, but what happens to that land now? You will have a 500-foot or so grass area with 2 poles. What do you do with it? Little League? High school? Or pay all that money to maintain it so people can just come look at it?

People will come...

They will most definitely come.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I was kinda hoping this was just the start of tearing down the entire city.

 

[slappy4428]

I was kinda hoping this was just the start of tearing down the entire city.

Let's start with Municpal Stadium.











Sorry, wrong city.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I was kinda hoping this was just the start of tearing down the entire city.

Let's start with Municpal Stadium.











Sorry, wrong city.

You're 10 years too late!!

 

[fishwrapper]

Sidebar. And I'm not sure it pertains to Detroit at all, but it was interesting point:

I was once in a meeting with a real estate baron and few of his commercial real estate analysts.
We were asking him the prospects of an NFL stadium on some particularly valuable property. One of his analysts said, matter-of-factly: "The two worst things you can do to 'platinum property,' is to build a cemetery or a sports stadium."

They later developed the property to high-end retail, commercial and residential complex.

 

[old_tony]

Right, but what happens to that land now? You will have a 500-foot or so grass area with 2 poles. What do you do with it? Little League? High school? Or pay all that money to maintain it so people can just come look at it?

People will come...

They will most definitely come.

They should plant corn around the edges of the outfield.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Sidebar. And I'm not sure it pertains to Detroit at all, but it was interesting point:

I was once in a meeting with a real estate baron and few of his commercial real estate analysts.
We were asking him the prospects of an NFL stadium on some particularly valuable property. One of his analysts said, matter-of-factly: "The two worst things you can do to 'platinum property,' is to build a cemetery or a sports stadium."

They later developed the property to high-end retail, commercial and residential complex.

Was this guy the developer?

 

[Starman]

Detroit owns the Stadium and has since a refurb around 1976. The Tigers were supposed to pay for upkeep during and after their stay, but am sure that little thing fell by the wayside once they left.

Quite to the contrary, the City of Detroit paid Olympia Entertainment (aka Mike Ilitch) $400,000 a year for "maintenance and security" after the team left for the new taxpayer-funded Comerica Park. (So in addition to giving him a new $300 million park on the front end, the taxpayers gave him $2 million on the back end.)

The "maintenance" consisted of nothing. The "security" consisted of slapping a few K-Mart Special padlocks on the chain-link fencing, which undoubtedly slowed down the swarms of scavengers and vandals for several dozen gruelling seconds.

The "maintenance and security " budget lasted for 5 years, until $2 million was paid to Ilitch. When the money ran out in 2006, the "maintenance and security" efforts, whatever they were to begin with, stopped.

The "maintenance and security" were so effective, that last year, when items from the stadium were finally going to be sold off as memorabilia, it turned out that most of the good stuff had already been looted or destroyed. Undoubtedly a few million bucks worth of stuff is stashed away in Kwame Kilpatrick's basement, to be sold to benefit his legal defense/cocaine & hookers fund.

 

[Armchair_QB]

My guess is most of the good stuff wound up in the hands of the people "watching" the place.

 

[Starman]

My guess is most of the good stuff wound up in the hands of the people "watching" the place.

With a quick stop at Kwame's basement thrown in to boot.